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DAVINGTON PARISH

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S. MARY MAGDALENE
KENT.

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HISTOBICAL SKETCH OF THE

PARISH OF DAVINGTON

IN THE COUNTY OF

KENT

AND OF THE PRIORY THERE

DEDICATED TO S. MARY MAGDALENE.
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BY

THOMAS WILLEMENT,

FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF LONDON.

LONDON :

BASIL MONTAGU PICKERING, 196, PICCADILLY.
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Co. Kent.

HE parish of Davington is situate in the
lath of Scray, 1 and county of Kent, at
about forty-seven miles from London, to-
wards the East It is separated from the
borough town of Faversham by the rivulet
which flows from White-hill through Os-
pringe on its way to the sea. The Watling-street of the
Romans, from Durobrivis (Rochester) to Durovernum (Can-
terbury), runs at a short distance from Davington on the
south ; on which line, near the forty-fifth mile- stone, on Judde
hill, near to Beacon hill, was the Roman station Durolevum,
mentioned in the second Iter of Antoninus, and where some
ancient earth-works are still visible.

The name of Davington* is most probably derived from

1 This lath in ancient records is called Sherwinhope ; in the book of
Domesday, the lath of Wiwarlet The lath in Kent is an intermediate divi-
sion between the shire and the hundred. Blackstone.

2 Called Danitune or Danitun in a Saxon charter, dated 962.

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2 HISTORY OF DAVINGTON.

Daefa-tun. The word tun in Anglo-Saxon was often used as
nearly synonymous with ham ; ham describing the place as
the chiefs home or residence, and tun describing it as sur-
rounded by a defensive enclosure, such as a mound, wall, or
hedge. Hence tun in process of time acquired a much larger
application, and was commonly applied to the enclosed part
of the agricultural estate, within which the farmer dwelt,
which we call the farm-stead.

With reference to the first part of the name we may ob-
serve that Kengble, in his list of families identified with the
names of places, mentions the Daefingas ; and it does not
appear an over-strained conjecture to suppose that this family
may have had for its head or founder an individual named
Daef or Daefa, or by some similar appellation. The Anglo-
Saxon Daefinga-tun would then denote the residence or
farm-stead of the Daefingas.

Davington hill, on which the church stands, is especially
calculated for a military position, being on a small table of
land, of considerable elevation, with a sharp descent from it
on all sides. When the low lands near Graveney, alias Cliff-
marsh, and about Sea-salter were covered by the sea, this ele-
vated point, and the abrupt height at Tankerton, 3 east of Whit-
staple, must have been very important defences to the bay.

3 In the time of Edward III. called Tangreton, alias Beacons-field. The
Britons, it is well known, generally raised their works and fixed their camps,
as did their successors, on the brow of some eminence commanding views of
large tracts of land.

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Numerous cinerary urns of the Romans, and coins of the
Emperors from Vespasian to Gratian, have been discovered
on the eastern slope of Davington hill, showing that in their
time the position was not only well known but occupied. 4
We know that the Danes generally used the Swale as their
place of disembarkation, and that they frequently established
themselves on its banks as their first point of occupation.
The shelter of the Isle of Sheppey formed an advantageous
cover for their slightly constructed cuilts or yawls ; and the
Swale was then, on that account, the general line of naviga-
tion to London.

Davington, as it exists at the present time, possesses two
features ; the one of a spiritual, the other of a temporal cha-
racter, but each of itself proving at once that it is a place of
great antiquity. It includes both a Parish and a Manor, and
neither a parish nor a manor can (except by the operation of
an act of Parliament) have been created for many centuries.

Much learning has been expended in attempts to discover

4 An elevated spot in the adjoining parish of Oare, corruptly called Nor-
man Point, but properly North-men Point, was especially adapted for obser-
vation on the approach of invaders. Within the parish of Faversham, to-
wards the Davington side, on some high ground still called " The King's
field," several very beautiful relics of the Anglo-Saxon period have been
recently discovered. It was evidently the site of a large cemetery, and the
intrinsic value of the articles found indicates its vicinity to some royal resi-
dence of importance. See Archaohg. Cantiana, vol. i. p. 42, n. p. 222.
In a charter of King Kenulf, a.d. 812, Faversham is called " The Bang's
Little Town."

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4 HISTORY OP DAVINGTON.

the origin of parishes. It is a popular but very questionable
conclusion to assert that the kingdom is indebted to Alfred
for its present parochial distribution. It seems to be much
more probable that the parochial distribution of dioceses was
far from simultaneous. As Christianity spread itself among
our forefathers, the Thanes, or great lords, gradually built
churches upon their own demesnes, or wastes, for the accom-
modation of their tenants. They felt it to be both a duty and
a privilege. In order to have divine service regularly per-
formed in the churches founded by their munificence, they
obliged all their tenants to appropriate their tithes to the
maintenance of one officiating minister, instead of leaving
them, as heretofore, to contribute to whatever priest or church
they pleased. Hence sprang a parish, with its secular or
parish priest. In a precisely similar manner the early reli-
gious houses founded churches on their estates, reserving to
themselves the great tithes, and serving the church either by
a member of the monastic body, or by a vicarius (a substi-
tute) endowed with the less important tithes and spiritual fees
of the parish. In the former case we have the origin of the
rectories, in the latter, of the vicarages and perpetual curacies
of modern times.

It is believed that not more than half-a-dozen instances
can be discovered in ancient records of the formation of a new
church and parish : the parishes of New Sarum, founded on
the removal of the old city to the new site, appear to be the
only exceptions. We may reasonably infer, then, that churches
in general were founded before the date of the existing public

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HISTORY OF DAVINGTON. 5

records, which may he said to begin — with few exceptions,
including the celebrated Domesday survey — with the reign of
King John.

That the greater portion of our parochial churches were,
in all probability, established in the Saxon times may be suf-
ficiently inferred from parts of the Domesday survey. It is to
be remembered, however, that the object of William the First,
in commanding this survey to be made, was purely of a fiscal
character. The several commissioners, therefore, in making
it, were mainly concerned in finding out what revenues the
Crown was entitled to as Lord Paramount according to the
existing feudal system ; and, as the Crown had no pecuniary
interest in parochial property, they were very indifferent in
regard to the parish churches. In some counties the churches
are returned either completely or partially, but in an inci-
dental or accidental manner ; in others they are passed over
in silence altogether. The non-mention, therefore, of a church
in this ancient record is no evidence of its non-existence at
the time, though mention of it there is of course conclusive
proof that it was then in being. Davington does not appear,
from the reasons assigned above, to have been noticed in
Domesday Book.

But, before speaking of Davington as a parish, it may be
as well to advert again to its civil peculiarity as a manor.

The opinion that the Conqueror introduced the feudal
system amongst us seems to be contradicted by his celebrated
survey, which may be said almost to confine itself to the sub-
ject of pre-existing manors, and to go far to prove that no

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such thing as allodial or non-feudal land existed in the time of
Edward the Confessor. That the great lords of manors, after
that survey, continued to grant lands by sub-infeudation to
their tenants, who, as mesne lords, did the same again to
others, and that many manors thus came into existence is no-
torious ; indeed the statute " Quia emptores terrarum" 5 was
passed in the 18th of Edward the First, for the express pur-
pose of preventing this in future.

Hence we know that a manor now existing cannot be of
later date than that statute. We are therefore led to the con-
clusion that the manor of Davington existed before the year
1289 ; and that the parish was, at the very least, of equal an-
tiquity with the manor : whether one or both of these existed
in Saxon times might or might not be proved by the Domes-
day survey.

5 See Appendix, No. IV.

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E are told by Tanner, 1 in common with all
the county and local historians, that Dav-
ington Priory y for nuns of the Benedictine
order, 2 was founded by Fulco de Newen-
ham in 1153 : and he refers for his autho-
rity to a collection of MSS. of Nicholas
Batteley, from the charters of John Hulse of Newenham.
These documents have, however, disappeared. Hasted, indeed,
says that the prioress and convent were seized of the church

1 Notitia, ed. Lond. 1744, p. 215.

9 The Order of St. Benedict was first introduced into England about the
year 593. The Benedictines founded not only the metropolitan see of Can-
terbury, but also most of the churches after the coming of St. Augustine ;
and by this Order were either laid or preserved the foundations of all the
eminent schools of learning of modern Europe. At their dissolution they
held in England one hundred and twenty-eight monasteries, all the cathe-
dral priories, and most of the richest abbeys.

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" in proprios usus," the same being appropriated to them at the
foundation of the priory, and that by this appropriation they
were obliged to find three priests and two clerks to perform
divine service, and pay their wages. Such particulars have
all the appearance of genuineness ; but, in the absence of any
authority for it, we must be content with the simple conclusion
that the priory is said to have been founded in 1153. 3

The earliest legal proof, then, at pre-
sent found of the existence of the Priory,
is the grant of confirmation of the 39th
of Henry the Third 4 (1254-5) of its
temporal possession?, together with an
exemption of such possessions from all
surrounding jurisdictions; an exemp-
tion which, before the statute of " Quia
emptores terrarum" 5 before alluded to, in 1289, would give

3 " Notes out of the Liger of Canterbury, collected in the tyme of Ed-
warde the first by Henry de Estrey, prior of the Cathedrall Church of
Christe in Canterbury Anno Domini 1228. Thus I finde in fol. 199 : —

" ' Domin' Fulco de Newenham miles habuit exitum Iulianam quae coepit
in virum Dominum Paganum de Campana armigerum."

" ' Haec acta fuerunt circa annum 22 Regis Edwardi primi, qui vero
Fulco de Newenham primus fundator exstitit Abbatiae Monialium de Dev-
ington juxta Faversham, qui vero Fulco habuit haeredem masculum, nomine
Edwinum, qui habuit exitum Salomonem, qui Salomon habuit exitum Jo-
hannem et cet.' " Surrenden MS. See Appendix, No. I.

4 Printed in the Monasticon, edit. 1823, vol. iv. p. 289. See Appen-
dix, No. II.

5 See Appendix, No. IV.

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to the lands a seigniory or lordship, (without a leet,) and would,
in fact, constitute a manor.

It would seem, therefore, in all probability, that Fulco de
Newenham, the owner of the manor and church of Daving-
ton, gave and appropriated the church, or a part of it, and
also the manor, with other estates, as he might well do, to
these Benedictine nuns.

About the year 1280, the Prioress, in common with all
other landowners, was called upon by a " Quo Warranto" to
show her title to the possessions and liberties of the house ;
a proceeding which was very generally adopted at that time
throughout the kingdom by our great
legal reformer Edward the First, to
ascertain and correct the abuses of
his lax predecessor. The charter of
Henry the Third was then pleaded
on behalf of the Prioress and nuns by
their attorney Richard de Boylaund. 6
The return to this inquisition throws
no light on the origin of the house ;
it merely refers to Henry's charter before mentioned, and
shows that they were in full exercise and enjoyment of

6 Monasticon, vol. iv. p. 288. It was there found that " the prioress and
her successors, in all places whatsoever, be quit of suits of counties and
hundreds, of views of frank-pledge and law-days, of the tournes and aids of
sheriffs, and other bailiffs and ministers whomsoever." See Appendix,
No. IP.

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all the liberties to which they were entitled under that

grant, and had not encroached upon
them.

In the 17 th of Edward the
Third (1343-4) a writ was issued to
inquire into the means, &c. of the
nuns of Davington. The writ and
return are both set out in Dods-
worth, and are printed in the Mo-
nasticon, 7 but the return appears to
be imperfect at the end.
In the 8th year of King Richard the Second (1384-5), the
Convocation having granted a tenth
of the goods of the clergy for the
purposes of the war with France, 8 the
king directed a writ to the abbot of
Canterbury for a return of all bene-
fices in the archbishopric, whether
exempt or not; on which occasion
there is a return from the priory of
its possessions, including the churches
of Harty, Newenham, 9 and Daving-
ton, worth £12, and the church of Burdefield worth 53s. 4rf.,

7 Vol. iv. p. 290. See Appendix, No. IP.

8 Wilkins' Concilia, ed. Lond. 1737, vol. in. p. 185.

-9 About this time Margaret, wife of John de Champagne, gave to this

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with the temporalities, which are valued at £14 6s. 8d. ; the
whole therefore amounts to £29. 10 At no very distant period
from this, viz. in the 16th of Richard the Second (1392-3), Tho-
mas Chiche and others gave to the convent of Davington no
less than one capital messuage and one hundred and fifty acres
of pasture for three cows and eight sheep in Harty, Newen-
ham, Luddenham and Preston near Faversham. So munificent
a donation must have proved a large and valuable acquisition
to the property of the house ; and there are sufficient traces of

convent eight acres of land in Newenham, the isle of Harty, and Daving-
ton, together with some interest in the manor of Norton. Henry de Apul-
drefield, son of Henry, concedes to John Pays all his lands, tenements, &c«
in Davington, Ore, Luddenham, Stone near Ospringe, Ospringe, Faversham,
and Preston near Faversham, which he had on the demise of Roger Digge
and others. Rotuli claus. 47 Edw. III. m. 14, quoted in Nichols' To*
poffr. and Genealog., Lond. 1858, vol. in. p. 198.

The monks of Faversham were continually at variance with the nuns of
Davington, as well as with the people of Faversham. The abbot of Faver-
sham pretended that Fulke de Newenham had given that church to his
abbey ; but the prioress of Davington claiming it by a like grant, both the
abbot and prioress resigned it into the hands of Archbishop Hubert, in order
that he might determine who had the greatest right to it. He accordingly
awarded Newenham church to the prioress and nuns of Davington, they
paying yearly therefore to the " Firmary," t. e. for the food and sustenance
of the monks of the abbey of Faversham, two marks and a half.

10 Monasticon, vol. iv. p. 288. In a petition to the king urging the po-
verty of the House, the yearly rental of the best land is estimated at one shil-
ling per acre, and the worst at threepence.

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it in the accounts, &c. as part of the possessions of the priory
which came to the Crown. 11

Our brief historical sketch is now drawing to a close :
Davington priory ceased to be a monastic establishment
after a continuance of nearly four hundred years. A general
act was passed in the year 1536 for the suppression of the
smaller monasteries. It did not, however, affect Davington :
that house had become self-dissolved a year earlier.

In 1535-6 (27 Hen. VIII.), a com-
mission was issued to the escheator
of the county, from whose return
we gather the following particu-
lars. In the 18th of the king's reign
there were only a prioress, one pro-
fessed nun, and a lay-sister existing
in the house. The nun died in that
same year, the prioress had died in
the year preceding, and the lay-sister
had gone away, leaving the place totally deserted. More-
over, we learn from the same document that the prioress at
the time of her death was seized of the rectories of Davington,
Stanger, and Newenham, with the advowson of the vicarages,
together with the priory, the manor of Fishbourne, two parts
of the manor of Monketon, more than five hundred acres of
land and much other property of different kinds. Such an

11 Ibid. vol. iv. p. 290.

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estate at the present time would be of considerable value.
The return of the escheator sums up by stating that, as nei-
ther prioress nor nuns were left in the nunnery, the estab-
lishment had lapsed to the Crown, " tanquam locum pro-
fanum et dissolution;" that is, from circumstances it had be-
come derelict as a religious house, and came to the Crown,
not by Act of Parliament, but simply by an escheat for want
of successors in a corporation aggregate. Davington haying
thus escheated to the Crown is not mentioned in the ecclesias-
tical survey taken in the following year.

In some of the local histories the poverty of the nuns of
Davington is strongly alleged as the
reason of the priory being deserted.
The inquisition last referred to suffi-
ciently proves the fallacy of this pre-
sumption. It is much more than pro-
bable that, from the then disturbed state
of the Church, King Henry having as-
sumed the title and functions of Su-
preme Head, no one would be desirous
of succeeding to the last prioress ; 12 or, that women could not
be found willing, under existing circumstances, to take the
veil. The king, seconded by the venality of his cour-

18 A list of the prioresses, as far as they have been ascertained, will be
found in the Appendix, No. VI .

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tiers," was but too ready to avail himself of any opportunity
of diverting the domains of the Church to secular purposes.

At the foundation of the priory the number of nuns
was twenty-six ; but in the reign of Edward the Third had
become reduced to fourteen. About the year 1320 new rules
and ordinances were adopted for the better regulation of the
priory. These were in accordance with the more rigid dis-
cipline of the Benedictines of Cluny in Burgundy. 14

13 See " Earnest Address" by A. Welby Pugin, published by Dolman,
Lond. 8vo. 1851.

14 The arms of the Benedictine Order were sable, a cross argent.
The arms of Fulke de Newenham were argent, a cross gules, surmounted

by a bendlet, azure. No seal has yet been discovered of Davington Priory.
The arms now composed for those of that community are the arms of the
Founder, with a crozier, in pale argent, garnished or, and the initial letter
D in the sinister chief, sable.

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ENR Y the Eighth, in the year after he had
obtained possession of the priory and its
lands, granted a lease 1 of them to Sir
Thomas Cheney, Knt — a reward at that
time given to such as were instrumental in
forwarding the king's views in the seizure
of ecclesiastical property. It is most likely that the worthy
knight was an active agent in this religious work, for which
he appears to have been substantially rewarded. Fending this
lease, a particular account was taken of all the possessions,
both spiritual and temporal, which had belonged to the priory.
In the last year of King Henry (1546), Sir Thomas obtained

1 Mem. Roll of the Exchequer (Hill, 28. H. VIII.), a lease for ninety-
nine years.

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a grant in fee of this priory/ of Faversham abbey, and other
great estates in the same county. The grant of Davington
priory to Cheney included the manor, the parish, and the
rectory or tithes as appendant, which last continued, by unity
of possession, in those claiming under the grant made to him.
This schedule, which is now in the possession of the present
proprietor, includes the rents and assize for lands belonging to
the house, some of which have been since severed, and sold
separately, by Henry Lord Cheyney, or by his successors. It
contains also the value of tithes, wood, and quit-rents.

2 For an extract from this grant, see Appendix, No. IIP. The grant re-
serves a fee farm-rent of £20 to the Crown. As these rents were generally set
at a tenth of the net proceeds of the property, we may conclude that the Priory
and its estates were valued at £200 per annum ; but it must be remembered
that £200 of the time of Henry the Eighth was very much higher than the
like nominal amount of the present day, and lower, doubtless, than that of
the times of the Edwards and of Richard the Second, before alluded to.

In this accompt hens are valued at " fourpence the pare," eggs " ten at one
penny/ 5 " ewe-lambes at sixteen pence the pece," " cade* lambes at twelve-
pence the pece."

In the year 1509, at Faversham, the price of a fat ewe was not above one
shilling and fourpence, and a fat wether not more than half-a-crown.

In 1543, a milch cow was bought for ten shillings, and hired at one
shilling a year.

In 1573, in a survey of the manor of Wicheling, near Faversham, timber
was valued at five shillings a ton ; firewood at one shilling per load ; soil of
the wood after felling, one shilling per acre ; wood of twenty years' growth,
twenty-six shillings and eight pence per acre ; arable and pasture, at two
shillings per acre. Denne, MS. BibL Egerton, No. 926, fol. 14. in the
British Museum.

* Cade lamb, " a lamb bred at home.* 1 — Todd's Johnson's Dictionary.

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HE family of Cheney were connected colla-
terally with the Tudors. 1 Edmond Tudor,
Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry
the Seventh, having descended from Edith
Stourton, by her first husband, Sir John
Beauchamp ; and Sir John Cheney, Knt.
from the same lady, by her second husband, Sir John Shot-
tesbrooke, Knt.

Sir John Cheney, Knt. distinguished himself greatly on
the side of the Earl of Richmond in Bosworth field ; and, on
Henry's accession to the crown of England, was summoned to
parliament as Baron Cheney. In 1485 he was created a

1 Dugdale's Baronage, vol. n. p. 290.
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Knight of the Garter. 2 He died without issue in 1496, and
was buried in Salisbury Cathedral.

He was succeeded by his nephew, Sir Thomas Cheney,
Knt., son of Henry Cheney. This Sir Thomas took a conspi-
cuous position in the retinue of his sovereign, at " the field of
cloth of gold." In 1539 he was created a Knight of the Garter. 3

* " Sir John Cheney, first Lord Cheney, El : ante 22 April, 1486, in the
room of Walter Devereux, Earl Ferrers, slain 22 August, 1485." — Beltz'
Memorials of the Order of the Garter, Lond. 1841, p. cxlvii.

His stall-plate yet remains in St. George's chapel, Windsor. The arms
there emblazoned are, Quarterly, 1 and 4, azure, six lions rampant, argent,
three and three, surmounted by a canton, ermine, Shurland; 2 and 3, er-
mine, a chief, per pale indented, or and gules, charged on the dexter with a rose
of the last, Shottesbroke. In the nombril point a crescent for difference.
The proper arms of Cheney, Ermine on a bend sable, three martlets, or,
being omitted ; for crest, the scalp of a bull's head, or, therefrom two horns
erect, argent. The mantling ermine and blue. The plate is inscribed,

" & loljtt Ctjepnep ♦ C&r-"

3 " Sir Thomas Cheney, El : 24 April, inst : 18 May 1539, in the room of
Henry Courtenay Marquis of Exeter, beheaded Jan. 3, 1538-9." — Beltz'
Memorials, p. clxxiv.

His stall-plate is still in St. George's chapel. The arms and crest are
as those on the plate of his uncle above, but the crescent is omitted. The
shield is surrounded by the garter, and supported by two lynxes? vert,
(Hasted, n. 662, says, two thoyesl vert), collared and lined, or. His
motto, "le mevs qve ie pves." Below the armorial bearings stands
this inscription, "anno dni 1539. and of kyng henry the viij. 31.

THE 18 DAY OP MAY . WAS IN8TALID SYR THOMAS CHEYNYE . TRESAR .

of the " kyng" howshold . b h oth' (brother) of the noble ordrb
of the garter." (See plate I.)

Sir John Wallop, K.G., by his will dated 22 May, 1551, bequeathed " to

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He held, by various appointments, the important offices of Con-
stable of the Castles of Queenborough, Rochester, and Dover,
and also the high dignity of Warden of the Cinque Ports.

His office as Treasurer of the Royal Household necessarily
placed him in continuous personal communication with his
relative, the king ; and it does not appear, when the church-
lands were being distributed, that he failed to avail himself
of his position. 4 By his first wife, Fridwith, daughter of
Sir Thomas Frowyke, Knt. he had four daughters : — Katha-
rine, married to Sir Thomas Kempe, Knt.; Margaret, to George
Nevil, Lord Bergavenny ; Frances, to Nicholas Crispe ; and
Anne, to Sir John Perrot, Knt. By Anne, his second wife,
daughter and co-heir of Sir John Broughton of Tuddington,
in the county of Bedford, he left a son, Henry, his successor.

Sir Thomas died in 1558,* and was buried at Minster, in

my loving brother" (of the Garter) " Sir Thomas Chayne, Lord Gwarden of
the five Ports, my great gilt cupp that the Kinge of Pole dyde give me ;
and my mules." — Sir Harris Nicolas' Testam. Vetust., Lond. 1826,
vol. ii. p. 733.

The badge of Cheyney was the upper half of a rose, argent ; therefrom
descending rays of the sun, or. A somewhat strange distinction for the re-
tainers of a Lancastrian ! This badge is represented on the point of his sword-
sheath on the monumental effigy of John, Lord Cheney, in Salisbury cathe-
dral. Gough's Sepulchral Monuments, Part n. p. 374.

4 See Lewis' " History of Faversham," and Hasted's " Kent," passim.
The grant of Davington from the king to Sir Thomas Cheney is dated 8th
Sept. A. R. 28. See Appendix, No. III. Sir Thomas, before his death,
had disgavelled his lands, 31 Hen. VIII. and 2 and 3 Edward VI.

5 " On Thursdaie, between two and three in the morning, the eighth of

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the Isle of Sheppey. 6 He had inherited considerable lands in
Sheppey through the families of Shurland and Shottesbroke.
In the third year of Queen Elizabeth livery was granted
to Henry, son and heir of Sir Thomas Cheney, K. G. of the

capital messuage of Davington, and
various other estates, which had been
held by his father.

In 1572 he was summoned to par-
liament as Henry, Lord Cheney of
Tuddington. 7 He married Jane, the
eldest daughter of Thomas, Lord
Wentworth of Nettlestead, and died
without issue in 1587. 8

December, 1558, died in the tower of London, that honorable man Sir Tho-
mas Cheineie, Knight of the Order, Treasuror of hir Majesties most honour-
able Houshold, Warden of the Cinque Ports, and of hir Highnesse Privie
Councill." Nichols' Progresses of Queen Elizabeth f Jjond. 1823, vol. i. p.33.

6 Archbishop Grindal granted licence to Henry, Lord Cheney, to remove
his father's and ancestors' coffins and bodies from a little chapel near unto
the parish church of Minster, and to place them in Minster church ; the
chapel and lands thereabout having been sold by him to Sir Humphrey
Gilbert, Knt. The licence is dated 22 October, 1581.

7 He inherited the property of Tuddington by his mother, the second wife
of Sir Thomas Cheney, the daughter and heir of Sir John Broughton, Knt.

8 The monuments of his wife, Jane Wentworth, and of his mother, Anne
Broughton, with those of some of her ancestors, still remain in Tuddington
church, in the county of Bedford. — Topogr. and Oeneahg. vol. I. p. 156.

The arms borne by Henry, Lord Cheney, were, 1st, ermine, on a bend, sable,
three martlets, or, the original arms of Cheney, 2nd, Shurland, 3rd, Shot-
tesbroke, 4th, argent, a chevron between three mullets, gules, Broughton.

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By his great profusion he had acquired the title of " the
extravagant Lord Cheney," and soon dissipated his extensive
property. 9

He, 1 June 13th Elizabeth, alienated the manor of Davington
and the site of the priory, with all buildings, lands, &c. belong-
ing to it, with one messuage and one hundred and forty acres
of land in Davington, and sundry other premises, and all liber-
ties, privileges, and immunities belonging to them, to John
Bradborne, Gent.

5 According to Nichols, (Progresses of Elizabeth, vol. in. p. 660) he
was knighted by the Queen when in her Progress of 1563 she visited the
noble mansion which he had built at Toddington or Tuddington in Bedford-
shire 5 and, should this date be correct, the Queen must have paid Tudding-
ton a second visit seven years later. Among the Rawlinson MSS. in the
Bodleian, (noted A. CXCV C .) is an interesting volume, containing the
household expenses of Queen Elizabeth, especially those incurred during
some of her royal progresses. At fol. 817 is " A daye booke made for the
space of xi weekes, viz. lxxvij dayes endinge the xxvij day of September,
Anno R n * Elizabethe duodecimo. 1576:" and at fol. 322 is an account of
" Chardges done at Teddington, Sir Henrye Cheynes Howse." This volume
was unknown to Nichols.

Among the manuscripts of the Lansdowne Library, now in the British
Museum, are various documents connected with the estates of this Lord
Cheney, viz. No. XVIII. — " A rent-roll of the lands and possessions of
Henry, Lord Cheney of Tuddington, May 25, 1574." No. XXII.—" A
note of exchange betwixt the Queen and Lord Cheney." No. XXVI. — " An
account of lands to be conveyed to the Queen from the Lord Cheney, 1578,"
and " a further account." No. LVII. — " Petition of Lord Cheney to the
Queen concerning the exchange of his lands, 1588."

A manuscript note, in a copy of Lewis' " Faversham," now in the Bod-
leian Library, (Gouoh, Kent, xxxi. p. 80) inquires " whether it be not
the last of this family of the Cheyneys who now goes about beggin relief."

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John Bradborne was descended from an old family of the
county of Derby. 10 3 Nov. 21st Eliz-
abeth, he resold the entire estate to
Avery Gilles, Gent.

Avery Gilles, 11 who died in Jan.
1573-4, was succeeded by his son
Francis, who, in 1583, 1 April, 25
Elizabeth, sold the whole property to
John Edwards, Esq.

John Edwards resided at the
priory, and considerable alterations
were made by him in the domestic
buildings during his occupancy. He
died, June 9, 1631, aged 87, and
was buried in Davington church, on
the 1 1th of the same month. 11 By his
wife Anne, whose family name does
not appear, and who died during his

10 The arms of Bradborne were, argent, on a bend gules, three mullets, or.

11 The following entries, relating to the family of Gilles, occur in the
Davington registers : —

" Avery Gilles, buried 23 Jan. 1573-4." " Joane, wife of Avery
Gilles, buried 13 Jan. 1573-4." " Anne, daughter of Avery and Joane
Gilles, baptized 2 Dec. 1567." " Robert, son of Avery and Joan
Gilles, baptized 30 July, 1570. Buried 23 April, 1572."
There is also an entry of the burial, 1 April, 1573, of " Dorothy Puller, ser-
vant to Avery Gilles," which seems to indicate that the Gilles' family had
resided in the parish, if not in the priory itself, during the ownership of
Bradborne.

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life-time, he left an only surviving child, Anne Edwards, 13
baptized 15 April, 1588. She became the first wife of John
Bode of Rochford, in the county of Essex, Esq., by whom she had
an only child, Thomas Bode, who died without issue. John
Bode died about 1 663, having married as his second wife, Joan,
daughter and coheir of Edward Strangman of Hadley. He
was succeeded by his son, from his second wife, William Bode
of Rochford, who married Grace,
daughter of George Crimble, of
Hakewell, in the county of Essex,
Esq., and died in 1691.

His son and heir, John Bode of
Davington priory, married, firstly,
Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Boys,
of Fredville, Knt., by whom he had
a daughter, Mary, his successQr ; and
a second daughter, Elizabeth, who died, unmarried, in 1638.

He married, secondly, Mary, daughter of Henry Hey-
man, of Sellinge, Esq., grandchild by her mother to Robert
Home, Bishop of Winchester. 14 His third wife, Margaret,

12 See Monumental Inscriptions, Appendix, No. VII . The arms of
Edwards were : — Quarterly, 1st, ermine, a lion rampant gardant, gules, on
a canton or, a spread eagle sable ; 2nd, azure, two lions passant, in pale, or;
3rd, sable, a griffon segreant, ermine; 4th, sable, three bulls' heads, couped,
argent.

13 Anne Edwards, wife of John Bode, was buried in Davington church,
7 Sept. 1638. (See Registers.)

14 She died 6 July, 1620, and was buried in Faversham church.

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survived him ; 15 on whom he settled the Davington estates for
her life, remainder to Mary, his daughter by his first wife,
Mary Boys.

Mary Bode, daughter of John Bode, by Mary Boys, his
first wife, succeeded to the property on the death of her mother-
in-law, and died unmarried in 1699. 1 " Several of the Bodes
appear to have lived in the priory, and many of them were
buried there, 17 as proved by the registers.

The next owner of Davington priory was the Rev. John
Sherwin, M.A., Rector of Ludden-
ham. 18 He died 17 Jan. 1713-14,
and was buried in Davington church-
yard on the 24th of the same month. 19
To the Rev. John Sherwin suc-
ceeded his nephew, William Sher-
win of Deptford, who died in 1725.

He was followed by his son John,
and to him succeeded his son William.

15 This Margaret was married to her second husband, Henry Parker, of
Shorne, Esq. in Davington church, 22 Sept 1681, and was buried there,
21 Nov. 1693.

16 Buried in Davington church, 22 Dec.

17 The arms of Bode were, Sable, two chevronells between three esca-
lops, argent. The Visitation of Kent, 1619, deduces the family of Bode from
" William Bode of Rayley, in the county of Essex, who held diverse lands
there. He was born at Crake, in the county of York. His wife was Anne,
sister of Baron Williams, of Thame." The armorial bearings there as-
signed to John Bode of Faversham are, Quarterly often : 1. Bode, Sable,

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During the time of the later Sherwins the priory appears
to have been occupied by their bailiff.

On the death of the last William Sherwin the Davington
estates became the property of his aunt, Margaret, then the
widow of Samuel Wood, of Goodman Fields, merchant.

She by her will, dated 6 February, 1789, bequeathed the
whole estate to Henry Jenkinson Sayer, of Lincoln's Inn,
Esq.

From Sayer it passed by sale to Thomas Bennett 20 of
Faversham.

This Thomas Bennett, by his will in 1813, bequeathed the

two chevrons between three crescents, argent; 2. Strongman, per bend, sa-
ble and argent, a bend ragul£e counterchanged ; 3. At Hoe, quarterly, argent
and sable, a label of three points, gules ; 4. Baron, gules, a chevron, ermine,
between three garbs, or; 5. Battle, ermine, three pickaxes, gules; 6. Man-
tle, ermine, two chevrons, gules; 7. Faunty, argent, crusilly of cross cros-
lets, azure, three crescents, gules; 8. Delamere, gules, a manche, ermine;
9. Sandford, per chevron, sable and ermine, in chief, two boars' heads,
couped, argent; 10. Sherington, argent, a chevron between three rams'
heads, couped, sable. For crest, a greyhound's head, couped, argent, col-
lared, sable, charged with three escalope of the first Motto—" Spes solida
non pudefacit."

18 See Monumental Inscriptions, Appendix, No. VII b .

'9 He had previously held the mastership of the grammar-school at
Faversham. The arms of Sherwin were, Sable, a griffon segreant per fess
or and argent, between three crosses pat6e of the first, fitchle at the foot.

90 In 1708 Bennett contracted for the redemption of £9 12*. Qd. land-tax,
charged on the manor of Davington, on tithes there and on other lands in
the parish, in consideration of £352 capital three per cent, consols. (Certi-
ficate of registry, 24 April, 1799.)

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entire estate, with the great tithes, the church, donative, &c.
to his daughter Mary, the wife of Robert Turner, for her life ;
remainder, to her five children, equally. Subsequent to her
death, in 1817, her husband and children surviving, two of
the fifths were purchased by William Jefferys of Faversham :
he resold them to Julius G. Shepherd, who had previously
obtained the other three portions.

From Julius G. Shepherd the whole estate, containing the
freehold land, church, and donative, was purchased by Thomas
Willement, F.S.A. in 1845, who is now the possessor.

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WK8T DOOR OF THE CHURCH , DAVINGTON PRIORY.

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HAT length of time elapsed between the
erection of the Norman church of Daving-
ton and the institution of the Priory in
the year 1153 has not been ascertained.
Two windows on the south side of the
existing tower, and one on its east side,
have been covered up by the subsequent addition of the
monastic buildings.

The architecture of the church is Norman, of the most
simple kind. What, at present, remains of it is a nave,
having a tower at the west end of the south side. Four
Norman arches on the north side connect the nave with
an aisle which had been subsequently rebuilt in early Eng"
lish architecture; there are also evident indications that a
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south side ; two of these openings yet remain at the west end,
one under the tower, and one adjoining, within which the
organ is now placed. Towards the east there are traces on
the wall that such arches were continued in that direction. 1
In the wall above the arcade, on the north side, are four round-
headed windows as a clerestory, and the same number are
shown, by low recesses, to have stood in the opposite wall.
The semicircular arches, which are perfectly plain, are sup-
ported by massive square piers, capped by small mouldings,
and having plain square bases. The west end of the nave
within has a large semicircular-headed doorway, above which
are three Norman windows on the first range, and above
them two of smaller dimensions.

At the west end of the north side, which is open both to the
nave and to the aisle, being under the former north-western
tower, is the baptistery ; the remainder of this aisle had been
rebuilt in the Early English style, having a pointed doorway,
opening into the Churchyard,* and four pointed windows;

1 " At the further end of the south wall, near the altar, was an ancient
tomb in the wall, which was opened, and among the bones enclosed in it
was a manuscript book, which, being exposed to the air, immediately crum-
bled into dust" — Hasted, vol. u. page 729, note*. Hasted, however,
gives no authority for this; a tomb, however, might have stood under one
of the arches alluded to above, afid now no longer existing.

8 Between this door and the first window is, on the ground, a recessed
tomb, having a hood moulding over it, evidently constructed with the
wall : from this was formerly removed a solid stone coffin, shown in the vig-
nette of the monuments in the Appendix, No. VII , which is said to have

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and, further east than these, is a much smaller one, placed
lower down and nearer to the pavement. The east end of this
aisle has, toward the upper part, a small arched recess carried
by small columns, below it a piscina? and, on the right, a
doorway, now opening into the sacristy.

The present east end of the nave is closed at the lower
part, by an ancient wall of nine feet high, through which, on
each side, is a pointed doorway, now closed up, but formerly
leading into another part of the Norman structure, now
destroyed. The exterior of these doorways, as they re-
mained in the year 1845, is shown by the frontispiece of this
book.

On the south side of the nave is a Norman door, commu-
nicating with the cloister.

The height of the nave walls, from the pavement to the
under part of the wall-plate, is twenty- four feet ; from the
pavement to the centre of the ceiling, twenty-nine feet. The
construction of the roof itself is so roughly formed, that the
architect evidently intended that it should be hidden. The
plaster ceiling is of the waggon form of six sides ; the
eastern end is divided into nine square panels laterally, and
four the other way, the centre squares being horizontal, and
the outer ones perpendicular above the wall-plates. Two

contained a perfect skeleton of a woman, apparently young, probably the
reconstructor of the aisle.

3 The portion of the aisle in which the piscina stands was probably the
chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, to whom the church is dedicated.

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tie-beams are shown within the church, and a third is shown
above the modern brickwork of the east wall.

To return to the east end of the church as it is at present.

It has been mentioned that, at the east end of the nave,
the ancient wall is perforated by two pointed doorways. This
wall does not appear to have been continued upwards. Its
purpose seems to have been to divide the lower part of the
original church into two separate portions. A plan is given
(Plate II.) of this end of Davington church, and of the same
part of the church which formerly existed at Marrick, in
the North Riding of Yorkshire. 4 Very similar arrange-
ments were generally made in those churches where the same
roof covered a church devoted alike to conventual and to pa-
rochial uses. 5 The example of Marrick is selected for two
reasons; like Davington, it belonged to the Benedictine
nuns ; and both were founded at the same period — within
twelve years of each other, viz. Davington in 1153, and Mar-
rick in 1165. 5 In each case the eastern part was devoted to
parochial uses, and the westernmost to the religious commu-
nity. The partition wall was sufficiently high to screen the
monastic from the general congregation, and the vaulting
would bear a continuous appearance, viewed from either divi-

4 For a copy of the original plan, see Collectanea Topog, et Genealo-
gica, 8vo. Lond. 1838, p. 100.

5 Among other instances of similar arrangement formerly in England
may be named — the Abbey of St. Albans, the Black Friars at Norwich,
Wymondham Abbey and Lynn Regis, Norfolk, and the Grey Friars,

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sion of the church. Such certainly must have heen the effect
at Davington church.

The frontispiece shows clearly the state of the exterior at
the east end in 1845; the stone wall with the two pointed
doorways remained, and sufficient portions of the piers with
the commencement of arches on both sides, to evidence that
they had been continued in the same way as within the nuns'
church. The third tie-beam of the roof was exposed, and all
the space from the top of the old partition wall was filled,
round a wooden window-frame, with modern brickwork ; the
two side walls had been cut through in an irregular manner.
The outer part of a doorway to the north aisle remained, and
no doubt opened into the other portion of the aisle on the
eastern part.

The edifice, standing, as it does, on a firm gravel soil, re-
quired but little artificial foundation, which will account for
the fact that no remnant of the foundation remains at this
part to prove the length of the original church.

Other defacements had taken place on the exterior of the
church. The roof of the north aisle which originally reached
only to the under-part of the clerestory windows, had been
superseded by one of slate, which covered those windows nearly

Reading ; and in early times this was most probably the arrangement at
the Benedictine churches of Canterbury and Norwich : on the Continent,
8. Scholastica at Subiaco, the church at Perugia, the Monasterio Mag-
giore at Milan, S. Chiara at Naples, and originally the Basilica of S.
Lorenzo at Rome, were so arranged.

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to the top, and the upper parts were solidly filled in with
brick. At the west front the two outer windows of the
lower range were stopped up, as also the windows of the
north aisle to about a third of their height. The top of the
tower" and its pointed roof were gone, and the remainder
capped by a parapet of red brick. About three feet of earth
had been suffered to accumulate round the outer base of
all the walls.

Within, the pavement was in the most dilapidated state ;
and neither font nor communion-table remained. 7

The spiritual state of the poor church appears to have got
into as sad a state as its corporal. The services had become
rare, and extremely irregular ; and the Holy Communion was
administered only on Christmas-day in each year. The body

As the church stood originally, there were two towers at the west end ;
that at the north-west angle being over the baptistery ; its point of junction
with the west gable is discernible. This front, when complete, must have
borne a miniature resemblance to the " Abbaye aux Dames," founded for
Benedictine nuns, in 1066, by Matilda, wife of William the Conqueror.
See Cot man's Normandy, vol. i. plate 24.

In Murray's excellent " Handbook for Kent," p. 191, the author men-
tions a tradition, but unsupported, as he says, by any authority, that the
two towers of the church of Reculver " were built by an abbess of the poor
nuns of Davington, who, as with her sister she was proceeding in fulfilment
of a vow from Faversham to the chapel of the Virgin at Broadstairs, was
wrecked at Reculver, where her sister died. The abbess is said to have
built the church towers in memory of the event, and as a warning guide
to future sailors along the coast"

7 These were afterwards supplied. See Appendix, No. X.

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of the church was used for all kinds of secular work. It was
usual, at one time, for those farming the land to shelter their
teeming ewes within its walls at the lambing season: and,
during the long flourishing days of illicit traffic, in which the
greater part of the neighbourhood, even persons of seeming
respectability, then participated, this church was a constant
repository of contraband goods.

But both the conventual buildings and the church had to
contend with enemies more dangerous and destructive than
either farmers or smugglers. On the rivulet which runs close
to the Priory towards the east stood some gunpowder-mills, 8
at which various explosions from time to time occurred. One
is recorded to have taken place in 1767, which did much in-
jury to the buildings ; and again, another of a more serious
kind, and attended with more disastrous consequences, oc-
curred on the 17th of April, 1781.° The sad effects were

8 The mills at Faversham were certainly in operation as far back as the
time of Elizabeth, most probably much earlier. The patentees for the
making of gunpowder had then the right of calling upon persons to provide
carriage for conveying the saltpetre at certain rates. A bill of indictment
appears to have been found in the Exchequer, 41 Elizab. against Edmund
Fagg, gentleman, living near Faversham, for refusing to supply a waggon
to convey a copper and other vessels for making saltpetre to Canterbury.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 12mo. London, May 17, 1860,
p. 172.

9 On a survey and estimate of the damages by the government officer,
Lieutenant Page, dated July 9 and 10, 1781, the sum awarded to the Sher-
wins, then the owners of Davington, was .£344 17*. 6d. The total amount
awarded to the sufferers generally was £1423 Is.

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not confined to the Priory, but extended to the whole of
Faversham and its vicinity. At the latter explosion the spire
and upper part of the church tower were thrown down ; two
of the gables of the west front, (there had originally been
six,) and the rooms below them, were entirely destroyed. 10

The refectory, which until that time had remained per-
fect, had its thick stone walls and heavy-timbered roof of oak
all levelled with the ground. This refectory stood against the
south side of the cloister, and communicated with the cloister
by the Norman door shown near the lavatory, (see Plate III.)
a gallery mentioned by Grose being at the west end of it.

10 j n « The History and Antiquities of Reculver and Herne," by John
Duncombe, vicar of Heme, 4to. London, 1784, p. 163, in note, will be
found a letter from the Rev. J. Pridden to Mr. John Nichols, in which he
says : " While I was taking this view (Reculver, of which an engraving is
given), about ten in the forenoon of April 17, 1781, a shock, occasioned by
the explosion of a powder-mill at Faversham, was so sensibly felt here, as
to alarm the whole village. The day was perfectly serene ; not a single
cloud interrupted the azure beauty of the horizon. The vast body of smoke
kept a stationary appearance from eleven to three, in the shape given in the
view ; it then assumed the shape of two eggs placed horizontally on each
other, and towards five it formed a long stream, which seemed to reach seve-
ral miles ; the appearance of this immense mass of smoke was visible the
next morning."

Under the provisions of an act passed for the greater safety of the pow-
der works (the safety of the people is not thought worthy of mention), the
stoves were removed into the marshes at a considerable distance from
Davington and Faversham.

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T is most probable that during the interval
between the dissolution of the Priory and
the period when the lease of it, for ninety-
nine years, was granted by the King to Sir
Thomas Cheney, in the twenty-eighth year
of his reign, but little or no alteration was
made in the conventual buildings ; but that, on the grant of
the property in perpetuum to Sir Thomas, ten years later,
many changes were made to render it fit for private occupa-
tion. About that period considerable destruction of the outer
buildings and offices, then becoming useless, evidently took
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and curtailed. During the occupancy of the monastic com-
munity the dormitory of the nuns was probably placed in
connection with the east or south side of the original clois-
ters, while on the west front there were only the great hall
and the private apartments of the prioress. 1

To render this part, which was all that was suffered
to remain, sufficiently commodious for a family, a consi-
derable addition to the bedchambers was the most material
requisite.*

Originally, the great hall, which occupied the chief part
of the western front, was in height, within, fifteen feet five
inches from the pavement to the under part of an embattled
oak-cornice, 3 and above this hall were some low attics only
constructed within the gables.

To obtain the required bedrooms the ceiling of the hall
was lowered to nine feet two inches, and the floors of the
attics were raised about nine feet, by which alteration they
were rendered useless; the space thus left was then subdi-
vided into several new chambers.

1 To this period may be assigned the destruction of the parochial part of
the church, which was pulled down, leaving the monastic part as being quite
adequate to the wants of the public.

8 It is not probable that Sir Thomas Cheney at any time occupied the
priory buildings, having then possession of the fine mansions of Chilham
Castle, of Shurland in the isle of Sheppey, and of Tuddington in Bedford-
shire. This last he held in right of his wife. Davington might have been
the residence of one of his stewards for the time being.

3 A part of this cornice was found in situ, under the plaster of the wall
of the modern bedroom above.

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Against the hall is the western side of the cloister ; the
massive chesnut ceiling of which was lowered in the same
manner, and several entirely new bedchambers erected over
it. This alteration in the cloister is evidenced by a stone-
mullioned window, lately discovered, which stood between
the great hall and the cloister. Of this window the lower
half only is now visible, the remainder being still enclosed
higher up in the same wall, now between two bedrooms.

What had been an open arcade between the cloister and
the cloister-court was then filled up by the debris from the
parts that had been so ruthlessly destroyed, and oak window-
frames of four panels each, evidently of the time of Henry
VIII, were introduced to give light to the cloister.

In this state the western walk of the cloister remains, a
small portion of the south side is still left, which retains the
arch of the ancient lavatory and the Norman doorway that
led into the refectory. (See Plate III.) The cloister, both
on the north and east sides, was entirely destroyed.

The great hail was much shortened by a cross wall ; an
arrangement which gave an enlargement to the former par-
lour of the prioress (now the dining-room), 4 within a closet
on the east side of which yet remains the jambs of the ancient

4 In the view of the west front (Plate IV.), beginning from the south
end, is seen first, on the ground floor, a small window, which formerly be-
longed to the buttery ; next to this, the principal entrance to the great hall ;
and then follow two high windows, which formerly belonged to the hall :
the second of these is included in the present dining-room. The three
smaller windows which followed belonged to the abbess's parlour.

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fire-place. To obtain access to the new bedrooms from the
cloister, the back and front of the flue were cut through, and
an oak staircase worked within the opening.

During the long occupancy of John Edwards, further
alterations were made, which are still discernible in many
parts. In his time it may be that the present dining-room
was increased in length by the encroachment on the great
hall.

The Sherwins do not appear to have done much of im-
portance. The Bennetts added some bedrooms and a laundry
over the modern kitchen offices, which now occupy the
ground where the north side of the cloisters formerly stood.
These rooms are built against and entirely cover the cleres-
tory windows on the south side of the church.

After Bennett's death every part, within and without, be-
came rapidly degraded. On the outside of the doorway lead-
ing into the old buttery there remained a very suggestive
inscription ;— " John Bennett Turner ', licensed to sell Ale,
Beer, Cider, &c."

Almost every room was inhabited by a different family,
paying their several rents weekly. The great hall had its
arched entrance solidly bricked up, while its interior was
divided by partitions into various portions for the coals and
rubbish of the fluctuating inhabitants.

A dilapidated wooden fence enclosed but imperfectly the
churchyard, orchards, and paddock.

The great thickness of the old walls effectually sustained
the body of the fabric, but every part of it was in a state

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of extreme dirt and decay, everything around and about it
most pitiable in appearance, and in this condition it remained
until the numerous inmates were dislodged in 1845.

Some allusion may be naturally expected as to what has
been done since that time. Interiorly, the fine chesnut ceiling
of the cloister has been thoroughly cleansed from a long accu-
mulation of whitewash, and the damaged walls repaired.

The entrance-door of the great hall has been re-opened,
the low modern ceiling partly opened up to show the whole
of an Early English window, and another window opposite
to it re-opened and restored ; the old buttery, cleansed from
its accumulated rubbish, has been floored and converted into
a comfortable library.

On the site of the old refectory, which had been entirely
destroyed by the explosion of 1781, and had been succeeded
by a lean-to cottage and washhouse, a drawing-room has
been built, which communicates at one end with the new
library, and at the other with the conservatory.

In the dining-room some repairs have been made. The
exterior of the west frdnt (see Plate IV.) has been thoroughly
restored ; the wall having been first cleared from a thick coat
of Compo down to the original stone-work. In carrying this
out, behind the modern window-frames of fir, with sashes and
outside shutters, sufficient remains of the original stone-
mullioned windows were discovered to enable their perfect
restoration/

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A high wall of stone remained at a short distance from
the Priory on the west side, part, no doubt, of one which had
entirely surrounded the nunnery ; in this was a large pointed
archway. The arch has been preserved; hut that portion
of the wall exactly opposite to the great hall and parlour
windows has been removed. By this alteration an extensive
view has been opened from the house towards the west, ter-
minating in the Bysing woods and Coquet-down, on the high
range of Beacon Hill. 6

Within the church the walls have been thoroughly repaired,
the stopt-up windows re-opened, and a new sacristy erected
at the east end of the north aisle. The east wall above the
old dwarf wall of partition has been rebuilt in Kentish rag-
stone, replacing the modern one of brick (see Frontispiece),
with the introduction of three lofty lancet windows, and a
small trefoil light above, them.

The communion-table of oak stands below these on three
grades against an illuminated reredos. Some stained glass has

side, under the gutter-plate, an iron cap, formed of octagon plates, perfo-
rated and quilted between two layers of coarse canvas. See Appendix,
No. XI.

6 Murray's " Handbook for Kent," p. 70, notices thus the view from
Beacon Hill towards the north and east : — " One of the most beautiful
views on the line (London, Chatham, and Dover Railway) will present
itself on emerging from the cutting through Beacon Hill, showing on the
left hand the Bysing or Byson woods, the German Ocean, Davington
priory and church, Fayersham church and town, and beyond, the steep
hills covered by the extensive woods of the Blean."

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been inserted in the windows, and scriptural quotations in-
scribed on the walls.

A small room in the upper story of the Priory, opening
into the church through what was the second window of the
clerestory, has been converted into an oratory, where the in-
mates, in time of sickness, when privacy is often needful, may
be present at the service unobserved. 7

An organ, by Walker of London, has been erected, and
stands in the recess opposite to the entrance from the church-
yard.

The modern roof of slate over the north aisle was carried
up so high as entirely to conceal the clerestory windows on
that side : this has been removed, and another of the ori-
ginal pitch covered with lead has been substituted, so that
those windows are clearly shown, both within and without ;
while, by the removal of a large and useless gallery at the
west end of the nave, the windows in that wall also have now
their original effect.

The neglected state of the churchyard has been alluded
to. It is now fenced in from future irreverence and desecra-
tion, and a simple lych-gate is erected at its entrance. Over
the church door has been placed a porch chiefly of old carved
materials.

7 This arrangement is in accordance with the spirit of the old monastic
institutions. The reader, if he has ever visited St. Cross, near Winchester,
may remember how the infirmary communicates with the chapel, in order
that the sick might hear the solemn prayer and chant as they arose in the
sanctuary below.

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The spire and the upper part of the tower have been re-
stored from a careful drawing made of them previous to their
destruction. In the tower was a single bell ; this had shared
the fate of the sacred edifice, time and ill-usage had rendered
it nearly worthless. Three new ones, cast by Taylor and
Sons of Loughborough, have taken its place. 8

In writing on this part of our subject it remains merely to
notice that a new porch to the house has been placed in the
north-west angle of the cloister court, enriched by some an-
cient carvings in the upper panels. The wall within bears
the following inscription, an epitome of the past history of
the Priory : —

44 jQunc mi&i ♦ mor im/us ♦
%en poftea ♦ nefcfo cti/tuB."

" Come to thy God in time !
Thus saith their pealing chime ;
Youth, manhood, old age past,
Come to thy God at last ! "

Echoes from Old Cornwall, by the
Rev. R. 8. Hawker.

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SDatJtngton Court*

LTHOUGH the present sketch is more es-
pecially devoted to the history of Daving-
ton church, and to the annexed priory of
St. Mary Magdalene, it is thought desir-
able to make some mention of Davington
Court, once a considerable mansion within
this parish.

At a very early date (the precise time is unknown), it came
into the possession of the earls of Athol, a family which
played an important roll in English and Scottish history.
David de Strabolgie, 1 earl of Athol, married Isabel,* one
of the daughters and coheirs of Richard, 3 (a natural son of

1 The arms of Strabolgie were, Palle of six, or and sable.

2 She died in Feb. 1292, and was buried in the crypt of Canterbury
Cathedral. (Weever, p. 213.)

" Isabella comitissa de Chillham" is mentioned among the notables in
the Davington Leiger Book. (See Appendix, No. I. p. 59.)

3 The arms of this Richard are given in the roll of arms temp. Henry
III. (Sir Harris Nicolas, 4to. Lond. 1829, p. 9.) " Richard de
Dovre, Chiles, two leopards, or."

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King John,) by Rohesia, second daughter and coheir of Fulke
de Dover, who built Chilham Castle. 4

He had issue, John de Strabolgie, earl of Athol, who was
one of the patriots that joined Robert Bruce as soon as he
began to assert his title to the crown. He was taken at the
battle of Methven, and, being carried to London, was tried
and condemned at Westminster Hall, and hung upon a gal-
lows fifty feet high : from which he was cut down half dead ;
his bowels were then taken out and burnt before his face ; at
last he was beheaded, and his head placed upon London
Bridge. 3 His lands were given to Ralph de Monthermer.

However, upon some composition with the crown, David
de Strabolgie, his son, obtained a restitution of the estates,
and had summons to Parliament from the 15th of Edward
the Second, till the time of his death in the 1st of Edward
the Third. He married Joane, eldest sister and coheir of
John Comyn, 6 lord of Badenoch, cousin and one of the heirs
of Aylmer de Valence, 7 earl of Pembroke.

David de Strabolgie, their son and heir, adhering to

Sandford (Edit 1707, p. 57. book n.) gives a representation of his
seal ; the shield bearing two lions passant guardant, circumscribed " Sigil-
lum Ricardi de Varen . . ." This Richard is styled " Richard de Chilham,
filius Regis," Clause Roll, 16 John ; and " Richard de Chilham, frater
Regis," Liberate Roll, 12 Hen. III.

4 By which marriage he obtained the castle and honour of Chilham.

5 Matth. Westminster, p. 456.

6 One of the unsuccessful competitors for the crown of Scotland. He
bore for arms, Gules, three garbs, within a double tressure, or.

7 The arms of Aylmer de Valence were, Barry of twelve, argent and
azure ; eight martlets in orle, gules.

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Balliol, his relative, was killed in an engagement with the
Scots at Kilblain, 9 Edward III, having married Katherine,
daughter of Sir Henry Beaumont. 8

Their son, David de Strabolgie, earl of Athol or Asce-
les, the last of that name, served King Edward the Third
in the wars of France ; and died, possessed of Davington
Court, on the tenth of October, 1375. He left issue, by his
wife Elizabeth, 9 daughter of Henry, lord Ferrers of Groby,
two daughters, his coheirs.

His youngest daughter, Philippa, who, at the death of her
father, was only twelve years of age, married first, Sir Ralph

8 The arms of Beaumont were, Azure, semle de lis, a lion rampant, or.
The character of this earl, and an interesting account of his widow, may be
seen in Tytler's History of Scotland, Edinb. 1829, vol. ii. pp. 52. 56.

9 Her monumental brass remains in part in Ashford church, Kent. It
has the whole-length figure of the lady, holding in her right hand the staff
of a banner bearing the arms of Strabolgie, her husband ; and in her left,
a banner having the arms of Ferrers of Groby ; Gules, six mascles con-
joined, three and three or (on a shield it would have been three, three and
one). Above her head is a banner of the royal arms : quarterly, France
(sem6e) and England. On the right side of the effigy is a shield bearing
the arms of Clare Hall, Cambridge: Or, a cross, gules; impaling, or,
three chevrons, gules; all within a bordure, sable, guttee de larmes. Three
other shields have been removed. The legend runs thus : — " icy . gist .

ELIZABETH . IADIS . COMITE . D'ATHBLS . LA . FILE . LE • SEIGN . DE .
FERRERS . Q • DIEV . A80ILL . QB . MORVST * LB . 22 . IOVR « D'OCTO-

bre . l'an . de . grace . m° ccclxxv." (See Archmohg. Cantiana,
8vo. Lond. 1858, p. 181, from a manuscript volume of church notes, 1630.)
Since that time the brass has been much more injured.

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Percy, 10 Knt., a younger son of Baron Percy, by whom she
had no issue. She married secondly, John Halsham of Hal-
sham, in the county of Sussex, Esq. She survived her second
husband, and died seized of Davington Court, 19 Rich-
ard II."

Sir Hugh Halsham, Knt., her son by her second husband,
succeeded his mother in the estate, which, in the early part of
the reign of King Henry the Sixth, he sold to James Dry-
londe. Sir Hugh died without issue 28 February, 1421.

Constance, daughter and sole heir of James Drylonde, 1 *
carried the estate by marriage, first, to Sir Thomas Walsing-

io u Mons. Rauff Percy : Or, a lion rampant, azure, charged on the
shoulder with a mullet of the field." (Willement, Roll of Arms, temp.
Rich. II. 4to. Lond. 1834.)

11 Her whole-length effigy in brass yet remains in the chapel of St.
Mary, West Orinstead ch. Sussex. See Cartwright's Rape of Bram-
ber, vol. n. part ii. p. 314. The legend runs thus : — " hic jacet

PHILIPPA QUONDAM UXOR JoHIS HALSHAM ARMIGERI ET UNA
FILIAUM ET HERED' DAVID DE STRABOLOE NUP' COM3 DE ATTHEL .
QUE OBIIT PRIMO DIE NOVEMBRIS. ANNO D5l MlLMO CCCLXXXXV. CUj'

ane propicietr Deus." The only shield of arms remaining on the
brass bears, Quarterly, i and iv, (argent) a chevron engrailed between
three leopards' faces (gules), Halsham ; u and in .... a lion rampant
.... surmounted by a fess .... (Mantham ?) impaling Strabolgie.

The brass plate is engraved in Cartwright, p. 314, and also that of Sir
Hugh Halsham, her son, p. 315, on which the arms of Halsham quarter
those of Strabolgie.

19 The inscription on her monument in Chiselhurst church runs thus :
— " Here lieth Constance Drylonde sutyme ye wyf of John Grene squyer.
ye dought r of James Drylonde squyer of Devynton beside Fevsshm in

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ham, 13 of Scadbury, Knt., who was buried at Chistlet. She
married secondly, John Grene, Esq., and died in her second
widowhood. By her first marriage she had three sons and
one daughter. The eldest, Thomas, born 1460, having died
at the early age of seven, the line was continued in the second
son, James, born in 1462. He married Elianor, daughter of
Walter Writtle, Esq. of Bobingworth, and died in 1540.

Among the children by the preceding marriage was
Edmund Walsingham, the eldest son, who took to wife
Elianor, daughter and heir of John Gunter. He became a
knight, was for twenty-two years lieutenant of the Tower,
and kept his shrievalty for the county of Kent at Davington
Court, 12 Henry VII. He died Feb. 9, 1549-50.

Sir Edmund Walsingham, of Scadbury in Chiselhurst,
Kent, Knt., sold the estate in the beginning of the following
reign to Ralph Symmonds or Symons, who died 33 Henry
VIII, and was succeeded in the property by his widow.

The heirs of Symons, 14 in the beginning of Queen Eliza-

Kente which died in ye yere of oure Lord m° cccc lxxvi ye xiiij day of
Novebr, on whos soule God have mercy Amen." How strange that no
mention is made of her first husband, Thomas Walsingham, but her maiden
name is continued ! The arms of Dryland were, Gules, gutt£e de larmes, a
fess nebulle, argent.

19 The arms of Walsingham were, Paly of six, argent and sable, a fess,
gules.

14 " Thomas Symons, son of Thomas ; baptized 2 May, 1526. {Daving-
ton Register.) The arms of Symons were, Party per pale and fess, sable
and or, three trefoils slipped, counterchanged.

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beth's reign, alienated Davington Court to Henry Copin-
ger, 15 of Buxhall, Suffolk, whose son Thomas having, in the
early part of King James's reign, mortgaged it to Free-
man, they both joined in the conveyance of it to James Mills,
of Norton, Esq., and he resided at Davington Court. 1 *

To him succeeded Thomas Mills, Esq., who left issue an
only daughter and heir, Ann. By her marriage with John
Milles, 17 of the county of Hants, son of Sir John Milles, Knt,
he became entitled to the estate.

15 " Henry Copinger of Devington in Kent and of Buxhall in Suffolk,
which had been in that name for many generations," (Tanner MSS.
cclvii. fol. 229 b,) married " Agnes, daughter of sir Tho. Jermyn of
Rusbrock," (Rawl. MSS. B. ccccxxn. fol. 30.) He had several children.
Thomas, the eldest, married Frances, only child of William Brooke, lord
Cobham, by Dorothy, daughter of George Nevil, lord Abergavenny. The
issue of this marriage was two children — William, who died sine prole, and
Francis. The downfall of the family is told in a few pathetic words in the
Tanner MS. : — " Francis had many children, but his father had totally
wasted the estate." The arms of Copinger were, Gules, three bendlets or,
on a fess vert, three plates.

10 This James Mills or Milles, for both names seem to have been very
irregularly used, was knighted by King Charles the First at Bewdley, Aug.
5, 1628. His arms were, Ermine, a fer de moulin sable, on a chief azure,
a pair of wings conjoined and displayed, or.

" At the time of their marriage she was only twelve years of age, and
he twenty.

" Ann Mills, dau. and heir of Thos. Mills, Esq. married to John Mill,
son and heir of John Mill, knt 21 May, 1627." {Davington Register.)

" William Myll, son of John Mill, bart. baptized 31 May,1627." (Ibid.)

" Elizabeth Myll, dau. of Sir John Myll, Jun. and the Lady Anne, his
wife, baptized 6th July, 1633." (Ibid.)

« William Mills, buried 15 August, 1637." (Ibid.)

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Their son, Richard Milles of Hothfield, Esq., had by his
wife, Joane Glover 18 of Ashford, a son Thomas. This Thomas
Milles is described " of Davington Court; 9 ' 19 which estate
he afterwards conveyed to his brother, Dr. Milles, who in the
reign of Charles I. alienated it to his relative, Thomas
Milles, Esq.

His son and successor, Thomas Milles, pulled down the
principal part of the ancient mansion, leaving only a portion
of the outhouses adjoining it as sufficient for the occupancy
of a bailiff : and in this state it now remains.

18 She was the sister of Robert Glover, Somerset Herald. Weever
(Fun. Mon. p. 676.) thus writes of him : — " Robert Glover, Somerset, 14
Eliz. 1571. A man he was of infinite Industrie, and incredible paines, a
man of excellent wit and learning : witnesse that Catalogue of Honour
begun by himselfe in Latine, and finished by his kinsman Thomas Milles.
Glover attended the embassage sent by the Earle of Darby, which carried
the Garter to the French king Henry the third ; and was princely rewarded.
He died 10 of April, 1588, aged 45 yeares." The arms of Glover were,
Sable, a chevron between three crescents or; these arms, with the crest of
a round cap sable, faced argent, therefrom a pair of wings expanded of the
first, are given in a MS. ordinary of arms, by himself, (penes auctor.)
over which is written, " Rob. Glover aliter diet* Somerset Herauld, 1582,"
and in the same volume the same arms without the crest are superscribed,
"Thos. Glover, Custos Pontis Roffensis An. 17 H. VI. fait de Pchia
de Bevenden in eodem Com."

J 9 He was head customer at Sandwich, keeper of Rochester Castle, and
an esquire of the body of King James I. His wife, Anne Polhill, died at
Davington Court, and was buried in St George's church, Canterbury.

It was this Thomas Milles who translated from the Latin the genealogies
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Davington Court then passed by sale to Thomas Twisden*
of Bradbourne, in East Mailing, Esq., sergeant-at-law, after-
wards one of the judges of the Court of King's Bench, which
office he discharged for eighteen years. He was the second
son of Sir William Twysden, of East Peckham, Bart., and was
himself created a baronet 13 June, 1666.

He altered the spelling of his name to distinguish him-
self and his successors from the Twysdens of East Peckham.
He married Jane Tomlinson, and died 2 Jan. 1683-4.

Sir Roger, the second baronet, succeeded to his father, and
married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Marsham, Bart.,* 1
and aunt to Lord Romney. He died 28 Feb. 1702-3.

He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir Roger Twisden, the
third baronet, who married Anne Musters, and died in Oct. 1 728.

Sir Thomas, his eldest son, died unmarried, Aug. 1737,
and was succeeded by his next brother,

the tide of " The Catalogue of Honor, or Tresvry of Trve Nobility," Lond.
fol. 1610, " in a desire/' as he says in his preface, " to revive the name and
learned memory of Robert Glover (alias Somerset), a Herald of
Armes, my deceased friend and Vncle."

" But his somer (too soone) set, he scantly saw the Sunne,
For now he thought to live, and now his life was dunne."

The original is in the Bodleian, — Rawl, MSS. B. lxv.

By his will, proved in 1627, Milles gave to the churchwardens of Ash-
ford, Kent, .£500, for the use and relief of the poor there.

20 The arms of Twisden are, Per saltire argent and gules, a saltire be-
tween four cross-crosslets, all counterchanged.

21 The arms of Marsham are, Argent, a lion passant in bend., gules, be-
tween two bendlets azure.

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Sir Roger Twisden, Bart, who married Elizabeth, daugh-
ter and heir of Edmond Whatton" of Addington, co. Kent.
He died in 1772, leaving his widow surviving.

His eldest son, Sir Roger, succeeded, and died Oct. 4,
1779, leaving his widow, Rebecca, then pregnant. The post-
humous child, born in 1780, proving to be a daughter, the
baronetcy passed to his brother ; but the estate of Daving-
ton Court, with other premises in the neighbourhood, having
been settled by Sir Roger on his wife, who died 3 Feb.
1833, their only child Rebecca then became possessed of the
estates.

This Rebecca Twisden became the wife of Thomas Law
Hodges, Esq., M.R, and died in 1843."

In 1844, Davington Court, and the land attached to it
in the parish, was sold to John Hyde, Esq. At his death,

** The arms of Whatton of Addington were, Argent, a lion rampant
gules, debruised by a bend, sable, charged with three cross-crosslets, fitch6e,
of the first

83 In the obituary of the Gentleman's Magazine, 1843, ocean the fol-
lowing notice : — " At Homsted (Hemsted), Feb. 3rd, aged 63, Rebecca,
daughter of Sir John Twisden of Bradborn, and wife of Thomas Law
Hodges, late M.P. for the western division of Kent" The armorial bear-
ings of Thomas Law Hodges were, Quarterly, 1 and 4, or, three crescents,
table, on a canton of the second, a ducal coronet of the first, Hodges ; 2
and 3, or, a chief engrailed sable, over all on a bend engrailed gules, three be-
zants, Hallet. An escutcheon of pretence, of Twisden ; with a crescent
for difference. His crest, an antelope's head argent, horned and tufted or,
issuant from a ducal coronet of the last

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March 25, 1848, this estate, having been added to that of
Syndale, in the adjoining parish of Ospringe,** descended to
his son, Frederick Colville Hyde, Esq. the present possessor.

The present remains of Davington Court consist merely
of that portion of the offices which was left after the demolition
of the mansion itself by Thomas Milles, Esq. in the time of
King Charles the Second.

Attached to these offices is an extensive kitchen-garden
enclosed by a wall of brick, which appears at one time to have
had niches for busts or statues. On the west side of this
stands a lofty arched entrance, with the original folding gates,
which have been richly paneled. Above the gates, a stone
in the pediment is inscribed, — " Devs nobis ilbc otia fecit
1624."**

Part of the outer wall of the old building, formed princi-
pally of large stones, yet remains on the northern boundary,
against the road which divides the old site from the grounds
of Davington Priory.

During the feudal times the original edifice must have
been of considerable importance, standing, as it did, on the
brow of the hill, and in a very commanding position.

Adjoining the south-west side of the remaining buildings
is a level piece of land, still bearing the title of " The Park ;"

24 "Australia Fons; quasi Aust-spring." Harris's History of Kent,
p. 226.

M Virgil, Eel. i, a—

" These blessings, friend, a Deity bestowed." Dryden.

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HISTORY OF DAVINGTON. 53

and on the western edge of this plat is a steep sloping bank,
at the foot of which is a long narrow enclosure, even now
known by the name of " The Knight's Field." Here, doubt-
less in former days, lists and barriers were fixed, the tourney
practised, and the knight

" stooped his head, and couched his spear,

And spurred his steed to full career."

The sloping bank formed a site from which the spectators
might view at ease the mimic war in which our forefathers
used to indulge with so much zest, and by which they pre-
pared themselves for the sterner strife and encounter of the
Field and the Battle.

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JLi&t of appendices,

APPENDIX No. I. " Names of diverse gentellmen & gentellwomen in Kent,
out of the Leeger of Devinton."
No. II. Names of persons and places connected "l from
with Davington Priory, 89 Henry III. . . Dugdale's

2 b . Ditto, 7 Edward I > Monasticon,

2«. Ditto, 17 Edward III Edit. 1828,

2*. Ditto, 28 Henry VIII J vol. iv.

No. III. Roll of possessions 85 Henry VIII.

3 b . Grant to Sir Thomas Cheney, K. G. 88 Henry VIII.
No. IV. Statute of " Quia emptores terrarum," 18 Edward I.
No. V. List of Courts-Baron at Davington Priory, 1681 to
1860.

5 b . Abstract of Descents and Alienations of the Manor of
Davington, 1631 to 1695.
No. VI. List of Prioresses.
6 b . List of Ministers.
6 C . Abstracts from the Registers.
No. VII. Monumental Inscriptions in Church and Churchyard.
No. VIII. Perambulation of Davington Parish.
No. IX. List of Landowners in the Parish.
No. X. List of Subscribers to] the New Font and Communion

Tab le.
No. XI. Account of an ancient Headpiece of Iron found at Da-
vington Priory.
No. XII. List of Published Works that refer to Davington

Priory.
No. XIII. Population Returns.

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^ppenDtr I.

HE NAMES OF DIVERSE GENTELLMEN & GENTELLWOMEN
HEERE IN KENTE.

Oute of the Ledger of Devinton. 1 From the time of
I' Henry the iij.

" Domina Elizabetha Clynton.

Dominus Lorade Rokell.

Isabella de Cumbe.* idem est quod Campus,

cujus sedes ab antiquo fuit in pchia de

Braborne.
Ieremias de Wormeset : armiger.
Domina Alicea de Roulinge.
Christiana de Cumbe : generosa.
Dominus Radulphus de Spy gem ell.
Willms Chrispe : clericus.

1 Hasted, in his "History of Kent," quotes a Leger Book of Davington , but no such volume
has been found. It is not improbable that the manuscript, from which the above text is
printed, and which was formerly in the Daring library at Surrendeo, was all that he had seen.
In the " Collectanea Topog. et Genealogies," vol. i. p. 200, it is queried " that the Leiger Book
is in the collection of Sir John Filmer, Bart. ; " the author, therefore, wrote to the present
baronet, Sir Edmund Filmer, who, in his answer, dated East Sutton Park, Staplehurst, Feb. 3,
1861, says, " I cannot find any book answering your description."

The transcript is in the collection at the Priory, and was apparently written early in the
sixteenth century. The copy now placed before the reader is printed literatim, which will ac-
count for some seeming inconsistencies.

* The arms of Cumbe or Coombe, as drawn in the margin of the MS., are, Sable, three lions
passant gardant, in pale, or. The Gloucestershire branch of this ancient family bears for their
arms, Ermine, three lions passant gardant, in pale, gules,

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58 APPENDIX I.

Dons Willms de Sellinge.

Juliana de Boy ton.

Johanna, uxor

Johannis de Apuldrefelde : armigeri.

Audoenus : clericus.

Maiores 3 de ecclia de Devington fabricator.

Annissia de Berfreisston : in occidentali plaga Kantia.

Stephanus Everode.

Alicia : mater Doni Richardi de Davinton : nomen loci, in
quo editafuit Abbacia.

Walterus de Wingham. Jf

Dominus Robertus de Campana : untis benefactoru nostroru.

Dons Willmus de graveneye.

Matilda de Ocholte.

Richardus Miles.

Robertes de Raley : miles.

Domina Agneta Halstede.

Godeleva de Hamme.

Dons Petrus de Goleshaule : sive Goshaule : unus benefac-
toru nostrorum.

Juliana de Moswell.

Elizabetha Spygornell.

Robertus Alius Durante, pater Johis de Watton.

Sibilla uxor Wilimi Apuldrefeld. Armigeri.

Thomas Monde : sive Moune.

* The words " maiores fabricatobes" are very obscure. They may designate either the
gentry of the neighbourhood who contributed money towards the Fabric, or who had charge of
the Fabric, (see Du Cange, in voce Fabricator,) or again a sodality of Freemasons employed in
the actual building of the church. In a council held at Avignon in the year 1326, con-
demning societies who had secret signs and tokens, and who wore peculiar robes, (the de-
scription seems to point at the order of Masons,) the term " Major" is expressly used (Canon
xxxviij), " Unum sibi eligunt Majorem, cui jurant in omnibus obedire." Concfll. ed. Mansi,
fol. Venet. 1782, vol. zxv. col. 763.

Might the neighbouring mitred Abbey of Faversham, which as well as the Priory was
under the Benedictine Order* have maintained such a Guild?

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APPENDIX I. 59

Stephanus Everode.

Stephanus de Aldington.

Beatricea de Eynesforde.

Johes de Wadeton : unus benefactoru.

Agnicia Drylande.

Sara de Goshaule : monacha.

Dons Richardus de Rochesley, miles.

Alicia de Chilton, monacha.

Johanna de Campana.

Elianora de Rowlinge.

Johes de Campana.

Isabella comitissa de Chillham.

Alicia de Apulterfelde.

Oervasius de Gerunde. Armiger.

Wilimus de Apultrefelde : unus benefactoru.

Dons Simon Archepus Cantuar : unus benefactoru. 4

Johanna Powlder.

Isoida de Monson.

Dona Elizabetha S* Nicholas : una benefactoru.

Fulcho de Newingham : fundator noster.

Alicia at Haule : una benefactoru.

Radulphus de Islynde : unus benefactoru.

Dons Robertus Archepus : benefactor noster. 5

Johes de Sandwiche : armiger.

Beatricia de Sanchwiche.

Henricus de Campana : armiger.

Sara de Campana : uxor.

Gilbertus de Roulinge : armiger : unus benefactoru.

* This was most probably Simon de Mepham (a native of that village in Kent), who was
archbishop from 1328 to 1333.— Fasti Eccle*. Angl by T. Duffns Hardy, 8vo. Lond. 1854,
vol. i. p. 17.

* It is uncertain whether this person was Robert Eilwarby, archbishop from 1272 to 1278
or Robert Winchelsea, archbishop from 1294 to 1313. — Ibid. vol. I pp. 14, 15.

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60 APPENDIX I.

Phillippus de Cumbe. Armiger.

Rogerus de Warden : armiger.

Henricus de Puldrefelde. Armiger.

Petrus de Hamme.

Willmus de Viana. Armiger,

Radulphus de Senteleger : miles.

Dons Thomas Rosselyne : miles.

Johanna soror Domine Sare de Ooshaule.

Dons Henricus Capell de Farnekete : miles.

Dns Johes Wilbye : miles.

Dona Johanna uxor eius.

Sara de Narwoode.

Dns Johes de Campana : miles : unus benefactor u.

Dona Joha Camoys.

Dons Willms de Clynton : miles.

Stephan Archepus Cantuar : unus benf. 6

Thomas Morrhaunte : miles,

Dna Joha uxor eius.

Dons Nicholaus Lovinge : miles.

Willms Bourne : armiger.

Domin Edmund de Pashley, miles : et

Dna Margareta uxor eius : et

Edmundus et Thomas Pashley : milites.

Johes de Surrenden, armiger : unus benf.

Joha Godwinton.

Jhos Frogenhall : armiger.

Joha uxor eius : et

Elizabetha Ji'/ia eoru.

Dns Thomas de Apultrefeld, miles : unus benef.

Johes Daking.

Willms de Eynsforde.

9 Stephen Langton, archbishop from 1207 to 1228. — Fasti Eccles. Angl. vol. i. p. 11.

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Simon de Beckesleye.

Joha de Wormesell.

Selestia de Rommall.

Robertus de Binney : armiger.

Alicia Maleherbe : Dona de Bougthon.

Robertus de Bredgar : armiger. •

Domina Elizabetha de Goshall.

Margareta de Westwoode.

Diis Willms Peyfrerer.

Dona Elizabetha Clyderowe.

Simon de Wodchirche : miles.

Dna Margareta de Champey.

Isabella de Snoade.

Dons Lucas de Viana : miles : un bene/.

Dona Sara de Campana.

Hugo de Mortuo mare : Archd Cant. 7

Johes Ryghley et Matilda uxor eius.

Henric de Wingham : Archd de Midelsex.*

Thomas S. Lauranc : ar.

Jhoa de Cosenton.

Matilda de Gosshall : una bene/.

Roger de Tilmanston : miles : un bene/.

Domin Salmo Capell, miles : un benefact.

Jhes de Godwinston ar. et Elizabeth jut eius.

Edmud de Knell, miles : uhs benefact.

Alans de Rowling, miles : uhs benef.

Margareta Comitissa de Dunstall. 9

1 Hugh de Mortimer was archdeacon of Canterbury in 1245. — Ftuti Ecelu. Angl vol. L p. 39.

• Henry de Wengham was appointed archdeacon of Middlesex 20th Jan. 1266-7, died 23
Oct. following. — Ibid. vol. ii. p. 326.

* The Saxon name, {the high place, or the place upon the hill,) now called Tunstal.— Zfotory of
Tuntiatt in Kent, by Edw. Rowe Mores, 4to. Lond. 1780, p. 2.

In the MS. which contains this list of " gentellmen, &c" occurs, in another part, the following

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62 APPENDIX I.

Iha uxor Stephi Everaude.

Iha de Esthall.

Emma de Wingham.

Stephus de Cosington : Ah

Isabella S. Laurenc.

Henric de Rowling: miles: uh benef.

Finis."

memorandum : — " Johcs domin de Burgo miles, duxit in uxorem Eleanoram Domini Stephani
de Pinchester filiara, ac haredem, qui vero Johcs dedit in modum feoffaraenti patri suo Stepo,
in usum procreationis suae, manerium de Danstall, in Cantia, iuxta Sytingborne, circa annum
Gr« 1273, regnante Edwardo primo."

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Xpptnbif II.

jHE NAMES OF PERSONS AND PLACES MENTIONED IN THE
DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH DAVINGTON PrIORY,

printed in the last edition of the Monasticon. (Carta
Regis Henrici Tertii, 39 H. iij. m. 5.) 1

Persons.
". . . . theus Alius Hamonis

atte Frith.
Gervasius de Besevyle.
Rob. de Sylegrave et

Emma ux. ejus.
Hamon et
Stephanus heeredes
Willielmi de Ecclesia.
Walteras de Ponte.
Stephanus de Girringes.
Guncelinus Alius Ricardi.
Lucia de Horneclyve.
Ernulphus filius Hyroney.
Hangerus Taylefer.
Willielmus Cocus.
Robertus le Wred.

u (Dat. per manum nostrum

Willielmus filius Wulvena.
. . . artinus filius Willielmi.
Thomas de Ertheslag.
Radulphus de Wydegate.
Hamo Peykelin.
Osmundus filius Edwardi
de Tunstall."

Places.
" Monketone.
Ospreng.
Westbroc. (bis.)
Winchelsey.
Greu. (insula de)
Sandwyk.
Rommenhale.
Dya."

apud Westm. xxij Aprilis.)"

1 Dugdale's Monasticon, fol. 1823, vol. iv, p. 289.

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64 APPENDIX II.

Appendix IP.

" Placita de libertatibus in Comitatu Kanciae coram J. de
Reygate et sociis suis Justiciariis itinerantibus apud
Cantuar. Anno regni Regis Edwardi Septimo."*

The only person mentioned in this document is "Ricardus de
Boylaund," the attorney of the prioress and convent of Davington.
No names of places are given.

Appendix IP.

" Ex Bundello Brevium Regis, anno decimo septimo Ed-
vardiTertii." 3

Person.
" Juliana de Newenham."

Places.

" Feversham. Wakelond.

Ospreng. Stouremouthe.

Newenham. Werspuston.

Mousecote. (bis.) Wade.

Corstling. Heyham.

Bourdfeld . H erspere.

Herters. (bis.) Seliinge juxta Chilham.

Norton. Werdenne."
Tenham.

1 Ex original! in Domo Capitular! Westmonaster. asservato. Dngdale's Monasticon, vol. iv.
p. 289.

3 Ibid. vol. iv. p. 290. Bibl. Bodl. MS. Dodsworth, vol. cxv. foL 158. Stevens' Contra.
Monaat. torn. ii. p. 218. Appendix.

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Appendix II d .

Paper Surveys, temp. Hen. VIII. A. R. 23." 4

Persons.
" Stephin Heyward.
Willyam Clynton. (bis.)
Alexander Cardon.
Thomas Okingfold.
Thomas Pye.
Thomas Dodington.
Thomas Fylmer.
Henry Fylks.
Ore. (curat of)
Buckland. (curat of)
Harbaldown. (prior of)
Norton, (curat of)
Peter Grenestrete.
Nicolas Upton.
Willyam Harte.
Carpantar.
John Motte.
John Bruar."

Places.
" Davington.
Hartey.
Stanger.

Key born Marshe.
Motte, The.
Butts Marshe.
Orsett Marshe.
Shepey, Isle of*

Davington Marshe.

Davington Hope.

Newnham.

Monkton. (bis.)

Menshion Feld. (upper.)
„ „ (nether.)

Dodington.

Bourdfeld.

Melfeld.
Oore.

Buckland.

Tenham.

Harbaldown.

Norton.

Wrens.

Mynchin Lane.

Esling.

Throwley.

Fynche Hill.

Feversham.

Ludenham.

Painters Feld.

Sturmowthe.

St. Peter's, Thanet.

Sandwiche.

Asshe.

Selling.

Stanstede."

4 Chapter House, Westminster.

Dugdsle's Monisticon, vol. iv. p. 890.
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appenirtjr III.

OLL of the possessions of Davington Priory, 35 Henry

viij. 1

" Ferme of landes and rents belonging to D .... ,
for one hole yere ended at the feast of Saynt Mich . . .
Tharchangell in the xxxv yere of the reign of ... . Sovereign Lord
King Henry the viijth, as hereafter ensueth.

Furst of Steven Clynton for div land

and certain Shepen lese in Hertye .

Of him for fenn of the psonage and vicarege
there xij u

Of theyres of Thomas Clynton for his house
and div'se pcells of lande there • . . xx li

Of Iohn Norden for ferm of a salte m'she ly-
ing in the He of Shepie called Davington
marshe vi 11 . xiij* . iiij d

Of Alexander Cardon for ferme of xiiij acres
Si of Saltmarshe lyeing in the pishe of Mynster iiij* . x d

Of M. Bury for ferm of vj acres of freshe
m'she lyeing in Rushenden m'she . . . xij 9

Of Scott now M 'shall for a litle croft

lyeing in Hocdale (torn here.)

1 The original roU on paper is in the possession of the author, endorsed simply 35 H. 8. and
also another roll exactly similar, endorsed temp. Edw. VI. 1547.

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APPENDIX III. 67

Of Steven Mote for ferm of the Manor place
of Davington and div'se pcells of land therunto
beloging x h

Of him for a title medowe lyeing under Da-
vington Walle late in the occupieng of Lau-
rence Manbye v*

Of Thomas Thomas for an acre of land lye-
ing in Hamfeld ij* . viij d

Of the Myller for ferm of Oore Myll . iiij 11

Of him for ferme of div'se pcells of land late
in the occupieng of the Person of Oore lying
by the Myll . ... . . . xxiij" . iv d

Of Adam Tongate for ferme of div'se pcells
of land lying in the pishe of Ospringe late in
the occupieng of Nicholas Upton . . . xxvj* . viij d

Of Heighney Godwin for ferm of div'se pcells
of land lyeing in the pishe of Monkton late in
the occupieng of Harry Ffylks ... xl*

Of Thomas Best now William Packman for
ferm of certein pcells of land lyeing in the
pisBbe of Burdefelde xliij' . iv d

Of John Alberd for ferm of certein land lye-
in the pishe of Selling vj*

Of the Pryo r and bouse of Harboldoun for
ferme of vij acres dl of land lyeing harde to the
southeside of their house .... xxij*

Of Robert Southsand for ferme of a pcell of
land lyeing at Asshe beside Sandwiche . . iij* . iv d

Of the pson of Norton for certein tiethes now
paid by Nicholas Ffinche .... xxv 8 . viij d

Of for ferm of a house next Dav-
ington place vj 8 . viij d

Of mistres Symonds for ferm of a pcell of
lande lyeing against Davington place . . x d

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APPENDIX III.

Of James Eston for a crofte called Mynchen
Crofte ........

Of Harry Borne gentleman for ferme of the
peonage of Newnham and the glebe lande ther-
unto belonging which is let to him by indenture

SM.

nijxix"

ny*

Rent of Assise in Ffeversham.

Furst of theires of Willm Norton gentleman
for a tenement in Westrete ....

Of Thomas of Warnecote . for rent of the
house which the said Willm Norton dwelt in .

Of John Hampton for his newe shoppe in
the said Westrete

Of John Sede for his house in Tanners strete

Of Mistres Symonds for a pcell of lande lye-
mg in . • • •

Of Willm Home for rent of his Shoppe

Of Willm Harte of Oore for rent of a house
in Oore strete

Sm. ix § . x d ob.

iij 1 . iv d

xx"

XVJ a

xx d
xvj d

xij d
ij d

vj d . ob.

Rent of Assisse in Sturmouthe.
Of div'se tennts there .

Rent of Assisse at Saynt Peters in Tennet.
Of div'se tennts there .

Rent of Assisse in Ffychebill and Ospringe.
Furst of Mr. Maycot for his house

xiij 9

*J a

Vllj d

and sute of court iv d

Of John Tayllor for rent of a parcell of \ ij g . ij d ij hens

land that was sometyme Styerfashe

\ 1J

J i cock xv eges
and sute of court iiij d

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APPENDIX III. 69

Of him for rent of land sometyme Blacks < •*" ... '

I vin ei

i benne
vnj eges.
and sute of court iiij d
Of theires of Robert Pedege for a pcell of "1 ij 8 . ij hennes
lande that was sometyme Styerfasshe • J j cock xxx eges

and sute of court iv d
Of theires for landes sometyme Wbitewoods iiij d . ob.
Of Richard Dreyton for a pcell of landed ix d ij hennes and

lyeing in J sute of court iiij d

Of the widow of Thomas Hawle for rent of 1 v* 1 arid

a litle croft lyeing J sute of court iiij d

Of John Abble for a croft lyeing .... now

James Eston vi d i henne

Of theires of Thomas Weldisbe for a house

in Ospringe Strete v d

& sute of court iiij d
Of James Eston for thre acres of land 1 xvi d ij hennes

lyeing J i cock xvj eges

sute of court iiij d

Of Tylden for a litle croft . . vj d ob.

and sute of court iiij d
ix* . x d ob.

Sm of money ....
Sm of hennes x. at iiij d the pece
Sm of Cocks iij. at ij the pece .
Sm of Eges lx after x eges i d . .
Sm of Sute of Courte

Rent of Assisse to Newnham.

iij* . iiij d
vi d

ij» . viij

a

Furst to John Howting for a mesuage beside
the crofft that was Thomas at Styles . . . xij d ij hennes

Of him for a mesuage lying to the Vicaredge
south, and to the messuage of John Badfield,
northe ij d i henne

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APPENDIX III.

Of John Chilton for vj acres of lande that was ^ xx d ij hennes

sometyme Horncastells .... J
Of John Borgin for a messuage next the meso

ij d

iij hennes
xviij eges

xxv eges
viij d ij hennes
suage of Richard Whelpe J viij eges

OfAlice Dungate for v acres of lande that was 1 xiiij d ij cocks
Peter Bakers called Whittenfolde J i henne

Of Matthew Home for v acres of lande some- n xiiij d ij hennes
time Matthews J xvi Eges

Of him for ij acres, di of lande in Spratts Hill 1 viiij d ob. i henne
sometyme Robert at Hawtes . . . J vi Eges

Of theires of Willm Howting for a messuage -
besyde Kings Streete north and weste unto Is-
ling and di acre that heddith to the Kings
Streete south, some tyme they res of Whelpe .

Of Thomas Plommarfor di an acre in afelde
called Delmer that heddeth to the Kings Strete.
west at the Dale

Of Henry Borne, gentleman for vj acres land -\ vh
in the Syndane that leadeth to the Pryory house >
of Davington South J

Of Richard Maycote for a pece of lande called
Gyecroft. sumtyme Agnes at Downes . . vij d

Sm of money viij 8 . i

Sm of bennes xv at iiij the pece

Sm of cocks iiij at ij d the pece

Sm of Eges lxxviij after x eges i d . . . vij'

ii<*

d ij cocks
i henne
v eges

vnj
d ob.

Rent of Assize to Monkton.

Furst of Mr. Hodye for an acre of lande atChap-
leyns now in the occupieng of Nicholas Ffynche

Of him in the said Nicholas occupieng for two -i

acres wood at Croftnes that was Godlyn >

at Danes J

y x e g es

vi d ob. q.
i henne
viij eges

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Of him in the said Nicholas occupieng for v ^ ij 1 . ij d ob.

acres j rode of land in Mayfylde. called Estfelde > i henne

that was of the tenement at lease • . J x eges.

Of him in the said Nicholas occupieng for di

an acre called Wylde ij d . ob.

Of John Clynche for ij acres of land at Tylcey vij d di henne.

Of him for a messuage and a feylde called

Homefelde xxij d ob.

Of him for ij acres of land at Wydmer . . vi d i henne.

Of him for an acre called Pycots acre . . vi d i henne.

Of him for halfe an acre that was Robert Reig-

nolds i d

Of him for a messuage in Homefeld . . i .. , ..

I ij hennes ai.

Of him for ij acres of land that belonged to ^ x d ob. i henne
Pycotts tenement in Tylfelde . . . J x eggs.

Of him for iij acres of lande in the felde that n x d ob. i henne

was Pryvets J x eggs

Of him for an acre di in the said that was "\ v d di henne

Stebills J v eggs.

Of him for a curtilage at Fryth . . ) > d ob - q r & vi

J part of a henne.

Of him for viij acres in Pallsberry that was
Drylands ij s . vi d

Of him for an acre at Pallsbery . . . iij d ob. q.

Of bim for v acres di called Swalward and the
Lord gy veth again di pounde of pepper . . xix* 1 ij bennes

Of him for xiij acres of lande and one acre of

wood called Monkton iij* . x d . ob. q.

and sute of courte iiij d

Of Willm Hykmote for v acres of lande and ] ij* . v d i cock
ij acres of wood in Snygland and an acre di in i i henne
Estwood (that was John Rogers) . . J xviij eggs.

Of him for a croft called Plottsland . xij d .

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Of him for iij rodes of wood that was God- ^ii^theiiij^ptofa
lyn at Danes J henne ij Egges.

Of him for v acres of lande in Snege land . ij* . v d i cock
that was John Rivers and v acres of land I ij hennes xx
called Estfeld * . . J egges.

Of him for a messuage and v acres of land <* ij 8 . ij d ob. ij
called Wavesland j hennes xx egges.

Of him for ij acres of lande and a messuage *i x d j henne
at Thornetons J v egges.

Of Harry Ager for i acre cti at Chalkdale . xiij d ob.

Of him for iiij acres di of lande and halfe arn ... .. M . _
i i.i t i ™ > ll • »J ob. q r

acre of wood which was John r foxes .J

Of Benges heires for vij acres ij rodes called J . \ .. /* *

Stedfeld that was Robert Tassells 1 .

^ xxvj egges.

Of Hamon Andrew for vij acres land in ij -\ xx d i cock

Croftes at Haule w* a messuage that was Ro- > iij hennes

bert at Haules J xx egges.

Of him for viij acres called Wynfeld . \

Of Thomas Wyse for his pte in the said viij •* viij d i henne
acres called Wynfeld and for a croft called Wydm j v eggs.

Of him for iiij acres at Haule beside Corte- "I x d ij hennes
foxton ....... J x egges.

Of Thomas Greenstrete for ij acres and x "\ x {[\\d j henne
days worke of woode of the tenement that was f x \\\\ eggs.

Thomas Okingfold J

Of Thomas Ager for a croft called Gabbens *\ vi d

Croft otherwise called Longcroft. i acre i roode ? ij hennes

that was John Barrows . J xij eggs.

Sm of Money .... xlj*

Sfn of hennes xxxij di qtor. di qter

at iiij the pece . . . . x* . xj d ob.
Sm of Cocks vi. at ij the pece . xij d

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Sm of eggs CCxx after x eggs j d
Sm of sute of Courte .

xxy a
iiij d

Sale of Woode there said yere.

Tyeth lambes there the said yere.
fiirst of Steven Clynton

whereof vj of them be cade 8 lambes.
Of Harry Broxsall

whereof iiij cade lambes.
Of John Ambrose
OfBradock
Of Charles Danby .

whereof one cade lambe.
Of Clyntons Widowe .
OfWillmBraylls .
Of Thomas Hey ward .
Of Edward Albery
OfSkott .
Of Robert Hey ward .
Of Richard Braylls .
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And xi cade lambes at xij d the pece • J

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an so evm .
Tyeth wool there the said yere.
ffirst of Stevin Clynton

In fleces
Of Henry Broxhall .
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Of John Ambrose .

In fleces
OfBradock.

In fleces
Of Richard Danby

In fleces
Of Willm Braylls .

In fleces
Of Clyntons Widowe

In fleces
Of Thomas Hey ward

In fleces
Of Edward Albury

In fleces
Of Robert Hay ward

In fleces
Of BartilmeweSkott
Of Thomas Pryor

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xxvi . qrtrs . di.

xiij qrtrs iij lb.

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xvi qtres.

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j flece
i flece.

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Sale of woode the seyd yere.

Of the parson of for ... . acres

di in Mychyndane in the parish of Os-
pring

Whereof in ferm to o r Sovereign Lord
the King for the said yere .

Item to the Curat of Harty for his whole
yeres wags .....

Item to Mote for his hole yeres fee

Item to Henry Borne for his whole yeres
wags *

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Appendix IIP.

The Fifth Part of the Patent Rolls, 38 Henry viij.

(Translation),

Thomas Cheney, Knight, in co- 1 The Kino to all to whom these

}

venant for himself and Heirs. J presents may come

j]l?£?0<}0 by a certain Inquisition taken at Smarden in our
county of Kent, on the 26 th day of the month of Octo-
ber, in the 27 th year of our Reign, before John Mayney,
Esq. our then Escheator in the county aforesaid, it was
found that a certain late Monastery or Priory of Nuns
of the Order of St. Benedict, commonly called the Priory of Daving-
ton, before the memory of man, and from a time to the contrary of which
the memory of man extendeth not, was lawfully founded, built, erected,
and established, in honor of God and of St. Mary Magdalene, for a
Prioress and Nuns of the said Order : 3tlt) tof)ecea0 the site of the late
Monastery or Priory was at that time in the county aforesaid, and
within the Diocese of Canterbury, and the Prioress and all the Nuns in
the said late Monastery or Priory from the aforesaid time existing were
under the obedience and ordinary jurisdiction of the Archbishop of
Canterbury for the time being: j&nfi toi)£C£&0 one Matilda Dynmarke
was lately duly and lawfully Prioress of the said late Monastery : J&nD
totjtteag there were in the said Monastery a certain Elizabeth Audle, a
nun residing therein and professed, under the governance and obe-
dience of the said Prioress, and one Sybylla Moonyngs, a secular Sis-
ter, called a Novice, in the said Monastery likewise residing, not pro-
fessed ; and afterwards the said Elizabeth Audle, Nun, on the 12 th
day of June, in the 18 th year of our Reign, died at the said Monas-
tery : atntt to|)ereaj2f afterwards no other Nun or Nuns had been canoni-
cal I y professed in the said Monastery of the Order aforesaid under the
governance and obedience of. the Prioress aforesaid : j&n& tot)etea0

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the said Prioress alone remained and lived in the said Monastery and
afterwards the aforesaid Prioress, on the 11 th day of March, in the
aforesaid 26 th year of our Reign, 1 died at the aforesaid late Monastery
of Davington, and after her death the said Sibilla Monyngs, a secular
Sister, left the said late Monastery, so that the said Monastery or
Priory, without Prioress or Nuns, or any one Nun, on the 1 1 th day of
March in the aforesaid 26 th year of our Reign, became utterly forsaken,
and as it were a profaned place, desolate and dissolved, without Prior-
ess or Nuns, or any one Nun, from that time until the day of the tak-
ing of the Inquisition aforesaid, by reason of which, divine service, ob-
sequies, alms, and other works of piety, which were wont and ought to
be celebrated, given, and done in the Monastery aforesaid, according
to its original foundation, from the time of the death of the aforesaid
Prioress, have ceased and remained undone: SltU) totjeccagf the said
Monastery or Priory was and remained at that time altogether dis-
solved and extinct : &tlt) toljereatf moteobet by the Inquisition afore-
said it was found that the aforesaid late Prioress, at the time of her
death, and all her predecessors, Prioresses of the Monastery aforesaid,
and of the said Convent from the time aforesaid, and from a time to
the contrary of which the memory of man extendeth not, by right of
the Monastery aforesaid were seized and possessed, as in fief, of the
Church of the said late Monastery in honor of God and St. Mary
Magdalene there built and dedicated, and of the adjoining burial
ground of the said Church, and of the foundation, site, circuit, and
precincts of the said late Monastery, together with all houses, edifices,
gardens, orchards, and inclosures contained in the same ; and alSO
of and in the Manor of Fishbourne, and of and in two portions of the
Manor of Monketon, inseparably, with their appurtenances in the
county of Kent, and of and in the other messuages of a Water-Mill,
with 33 acres of land, 6 acres of meadow, 270 acres of pasture, 80 acres
of forest, and 6 acres of fresh marsh, 140 acres of salt marsh, and 90 of

1 Henry YIII.'s Grant to Sir Thomas Cheney, Knight, recites an Inquisition of 26 October,
27 Hen. VIIL, finding the Priory deserted and dissolved 11 March, 26 Hen. VIII.

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pasture land, all commonly called in English, Shepen Lease in Dache
Marshe and Kayborne Marshe, at a rent of 70 shillings and 10 pence,
and a further rent of 15 hens, 2 cocks, and 12 quarters and 5 bushels
of barley, with the appurtenances in the villas, parishes, and hamlets
of Davington, Fishborne, Feversham, Overperston, Newnham, the
Isle of Hartey, Durdevile, Mynster in the Isle of Shepey, Herball
Downe, Norton, Ludenham, Sythingborne, Sandwiche, Tenett, Ashe
next Sandwich, Sellynge, Lynsted, Stansted, at Espringe in the county
aforesaid : Stall totjereag furttjer by the Inquisition aforesaid it was
found that the aforesaid late Prioress and the Convent before and from
the time of the dissolution and extinction of the late Monastery or
Priory aforesaid were seized of and in the Advocations and Rectories
of the Churches of Davington and Stanger in the Island of Hartey
aforesaid, and of the Rectory of Newenham aforesaid, together with
the advocation of the said vicarage : SLtib tDf)e?ea$ the aforesaid late
Prioress and all her predecessors, from a time to the contrary of which
the memory of man extendeth not, and from the time of the extinction
and dissolution of the aforesaid late Monastery, were Parsons impro-
priate of the aforesaid rectories and churches of Davington, Newen-
ham, and Stanger, from the whole time aforesaid by right of the late
Monastery or Priory aforesaid, and duly and lawfully held the said
rectories, together with all tithes, oblations, profits, and obventions to
the said rectories and churches belonging : Stall tof)0tlf}0 fttrtf)tt by
the Inquisition aforesaid it was found that a certain Joan, formerly
Prioress of the late Monastery or Priory aforesaid, and the predeces-
sors of the aforesaid late Prioress and of the said Convent, before the
dissolution and extinction of the said Monastery or Priory were seized
by right of the Monastery or Priory aforesaid of and in the advoca-
tion and patronage of the Parish Church of Brodfelde, and of two
portions of the advocation or patronage of the Parish Church of
Monketon in fee and right : Stall toljereag a certain John Aucher,
gentleman, long before the dissolution and extinction of the said
House or Priory, was seized of the advocation and patronage of the
parish church of Ottryngden, and of the third portion of the patronage

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of the aforesaid church of Monketon in fee and right: J3nD tof)Ct€&0
ttt0t£0t)£? the most reverend Father in Christ, John, Cardinal Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, Ordinary of the same place, taking into his
grave consideration the poverty, indigence, ruin, and decay of the Pa-
rishioners and Inhabitants of the aforesaid parishes of Brodfelde,
Monketon and Ottryngden, that the profits, issues, oblations, and
emoluments of the said parishes were insufficient for the support of
separate Priests for the celebration of Divine Service, in the 14 th year
of the Reign of our very dear Father Henry VII. lafe King of England,
both by his right as Ordinary, as also by the lawful attainment of all
the other and singular things in that behalf necessary and requisite,
annexed and consolidated the aforesaid Churches of Brodfelde and
Monketon to and in the aforesaid Church of Ottryngden: J8ttfJ
tof)ereaj2f the aforesaid Joan, formerly Prioress, and John Aucher,
gentleman, did afterwards, that is to say, on the 30 th day of Novem-
ber, in the 14 th year of the Reign of our said very dear Father Henry
VII. late King of England, in consideration of the premises, by their
written indenture between the aforesaid Joan, formerly Prioress, by
the designation of " Joan, Prioress of the church of St. Mary Magda-
lene de Davington, within the county of Kent, on the one part," and
the aforesaid John Aucher, by the description of "John Aucher of Ot-
tryngden, in the said county, gentleman, on the other part," which in-
denture was dated on the same day and year, stipulate, covenant, and
agree that the aforesaid Joan, formerly Prioress, and her successors,
Prioresses of the said Monastery or Priory from time to time, should
have the presentation to the aforesaid Church of Ottryngden when the
said church should next fall vacant ; and that the said John Aucher
and his heirs should have the presentation to the said church alter-
nately for ever in the manner aforesaid whensoever and as often as
that church should fall vacant, which presentation the aforesaid Prior-
ess and her successors from the day of the making of the said cove-
nant until the day of the extinction and dissolution of the said Monas-
tery or Priory aforesaid, have enjoyed according to the form and tenor
of that covenant: Sllib tof)C?C&0 tne sa 'd Joan, formerly Prioress of

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the aforesaid Monastery or Priory, and the successors of the aforesaid
Joan, by virtue of the covenant aforesaid, hath and have presented to
the aforesaid Church of Ottryngden, being vacant, one John Deane,
their Clerk, who on their presentation was admitted, instituted, and
inducted to the same, but who the Patron or Founder of the aforesaid
Monastery or Priory was, or of what man or what men the aforesaid
Monastery and the other premises were held, or any part of them was
held, the Jurors of the Inquisition aforesaid were utterly ignorant, as
by the said Inquisition among other things doth plainly appear :

IfcllOto all 9$en, that We (for the sum of £1688 12*. 6d. of law-
ful money of England, paid into the hands of our Treasurer of our
Court of Augmentation of the revenues of the Crown for our use, by
our beloved and faithful Councillor Thomas Cheynye, Knight, Trea-
surer of our Household, by which we acknowledge ourselves to be fully
satisfied and paid, and by these presents do acquit and release the said
Thomas, his heirs, executors, and administrators), by our special grace
and out of our sure knowledge and our own mere will, have given and
granted, and by these presents do give and grant, to the aforesaid
Thomas Cheynye, Knight, the whole site, circuit, and precincts of the
said late Monastery or Priory of Davington, in our said county of
Kent, and all the houses, edifices, gardens, orchards, and inclosures
contained in the said site of the said late Monastery or Priory, and the
whole aforesaid Manor of Fishborne, and two portions of the Manor
of Monketon, with all the appurtenances formerly belonging and ap-
pertaining to the Monastery and Priory of Davington, and the parcels
of possessions thence late arising ; and also all and singular the do-
mains, manors, rectories, vicarages, chapels, advocations and the rights
of the patronages of the Rectories, Vicarages, and Churches whatsoever,
and also the messuages, lands, tenements, mills, meadows, pastures,
commons, waters, fisheries, marshes, woods, underwoods, revenues, re-
versions, services, tithes, fiefs, farms, annuities, tenths, oblations, ob-
ventions, pensions, portions, knights' fees, wards, dowries, escheats,
reliefs, heriots, fines, amerciaments, courts leet, views of frank pledge,

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chattels, waifs, assarts, chattels of felons and fugitives, free warrens,
and all our other rights, jurisdictions, franchises, liberties, profits, com-
modities, emoluments, possessions, and hereditaments, both spiritual
and temporal, of whatsoever sort, nature, or kind they may be, and
under whatsoever names they may be ranked and known, situate
and existing in Davington, Fishborne, Feversham, Overperstone,
Newnham, the Isle of Hartey, Eslenge, Monketon, Durdeville,
Minster in the Isle of Shepey, Harball Downe, Norton, Sithingborne,
Sandwiche, Tenett, Ashe next Sandwiche, Sellinge, Lynsted, Stansted
and Ospringe,in our said county of Kent, and elsewhere wheresoever in
the said county of Kent, belonging or appertaining to the said Monas-
tery or Priory of Davington, or heretofore held, known, or reputed to
be parcels of the possessions, rights, profits, or revenues of the said

9£otia0ter? or $rior? of flDatunjjtoii.

The Badge or Cheney.

This termination of the connection of Davington Priory with Sir Thomas Cheney, K. 6. may
be a fit place to correct an error at p. 19, ante, in note 3. The badge of Cheney is there de-
scribed (on the authority of an early MS.) as being a white rose, rayonnee with gold, and
surprise is expressed that the rose of such a colour should have been used by an adherent of
the House of Lancaster.

On further investigation, made since that note was printed, it seems clear to the Author
that the proper tincture of the flower was red, and so far suited to the House whose fortunes
were implicitly followed by the Cheney family.

And what is extremely curious, this especial badge does not appear to have been adopted
from partisanship, but had been composed from the arms of Shottubrooie, long quartered by
the Cheneys previously. On pages 15 and 17, ante, will be seen the red rose with the rayons
of gold on the chief of the second quarter.

In MS. Harl. No. 4632, fol. 218, the complete badge is given correctly, and underwritten
" Chenie." This MS. appears to have been commenced by Christopher Barker, then " Riche-
mound Herald," which office he held from 1522 to 1569. He afterwards became a knight of
the Bath and Garter King at Arms.

This same device was used as a crest by the family of Shottesbrooke : " Robertas Shotu-
broke miles, 11 Hen. VI.*' (arms as before). M Crest, on a helmet and wreath of roses, a
demi-rose radiated. 1 ' " Notes of the family of Cobham, MS. Robert Glover, Somerset." (In
Coll. Armor, marked Philipot, £. 1.) Quoted in Collect Topog. et Geneabg. vol. vii. p. 327.

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Slppen&fr IV.

Statute — " Quia emptores terrarum." Anno 18 Edwardi I.
a.d. 1289-90. (Translation.)

STATUTE of our Lord the King, concerning the selling
and buying of Land/'

" if OtagftnucI) as purchasers of lands and tene-
ments of the fees of great men and others have many times heretofore
entered into their fees, to the prejudice of the Lords to whom the
Freeholders of such great men and others have sold their lands and
tenements, to be holden in fee by them and their heirs of their Feoffors,
and not of the Chief Lords of the fees, whereby the same Chief Lords
have many times lost their escheats, maritages and wardships of lands
and tenements belonging to their fees ; which thing seemed very hard
and extreme unto those great men and other Lords, and moreover in
this case manifest disheritance; flDtlt %0CtJ tf)£ Ifcftlg, in his Par-
liament at Westminster after Easter, the eighteenth year of his
reign, that is to wit, in the quinzime of Saint John Baptist, at the
instance of the great men of his realm, granted, provided, and or-
dained, <3Tf)at from henceforth it shall be lawful to every freeman to sell
at his own pleasure his lands and tenements, or part of them ; yet so
that the feoffee shall hold the same lands and tenements, or part of
them, of the same Chief Lord, and by the same services and customs
as his feoffor held before.

" SLtib if he sell any part of such his lands or tenements to any, the
feoffee shall hold it immediately of the Chief Lord, and shall be forth-
with charged with the service, for so much as pertaineth, or ought to

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pertain to the said Lord for that parcel, according to the quantity of
the land or tenement sold ; SLtiQ bo, in this case, that part of the ser-
vice shall cease to be taken by the Chief Lord by the hands of the
feoffor, from the time that the feoffee ought to be attendant and an-
swerable to the same Chief Lord, according to the quantity of the
land or tenement sold, for the parcel of the service so due.

" &nt) be it fcnoton that by the said sales or purchases of
lands or tenements, or any parcels of them, such lands or tenements
shall in no wise come into mortmain, either in part or in whole, neither
by policy ne craft, contrary to the form of the statute late made there-
upon.

" 3nD be it fcnoton that this statute extendeth only to lands
sold to be holden in fee simple ; and that it extendeth to the time
coming ; and it shall begin to take effect at the feast of St. Andrew
next ensuing.

Given the eighteenth year of the reign of
King Edward, son to King Henry."

The foregoing statute consists of three parts : —

1 . Freeholders may sell their lands, so that the feoffee hold

of the Chief Lord.

2. Sale of part and apportionment of services.

3. Mortmain prohibited.

On the close roll 18 Edward I, m. 6. d, the title of the foregoing
statute is, " Statutum quod nullus emat terras de aliis tenendas quam
de capitalibus Dominis, &c." In the printed copies and translations
it is intituled st Statutum Westm. iij." " The statute of Westminster the
Third, viz. of Quia emptores terrarum."

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OURTS-BARON of Davington, held there from the
year 1631 to 1860 inclusive.

Extracted from the Rolls in the possession of the present
Lord of the Manor.

Dates. Lords of the said Manor.

1631, January 3, John Bode, and Anne his wife, as in right

of the said Anne.

1632, June 26, The same.
1634, October 14, The same.

1645, November 10, John Bode, alone.

1661, February 23, The same.
1653, October 18, The same.
1656, November 28, The same.
1659, April 21, The same.

1662, October 17, Margaret, widow of John Bode.
1673, November 12, The same.

1677, November 8, The same.
1680, November 16, The same.
1690, February 26, Mary Bode, daughter and heir of John

Bode. 1
1693, October 18, The same.
1695, October 28, The same.
1699, October 18, The same.

1 From an abstract from the Court Baron Roll*, from 1631 to 1690 inclusive, made " at the
command of Mrs. Mary Bode, the lady of the manor," now in the possession of Thomas Wille-
ment See Appendix No. TI b .

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Dates.

1710, February 1,
1717, July 13,
1722, May 25,
1728, June 11,
1739, June 11,
1752, April 20,
1769, August 10,
1779, September 13,
1792, December 17,
1806, December 15,
1813, November 24,
1820, November 24,
1825, October 24,
1833, January 24,

1845, October 11,
1852, July 5,
1860, June 21,

Lords of the said Manor.

John Sherwin, Clk.

William Sherwin,

The same.

The same.

The same.

The same (of Deptford, Kent).*

John Sherwin.

William Sherwin.

Thomas Bennett.

The same.

Robert Turner.

The same.

Edward Nettlefold*

Robert Turner,

John Barling,

George Pierce Marsh,

Julius Garborian Shepherd

Thomas Willement

The same.

i

Trustees and Exe-
cutors of Thomas
Bennett, deceased.

9 To his appointment of a steward to the manor, William Sherwin's seal has on it the crest
of a bull's head issuant from a ducal coronet

9 This person held the court illegally, haying had no title to the estate.

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Appendix V.

£t)e £0anor of SDattngton,

N Abstract 1 or Account of the severall Descents and
Alienations of the severall lands belonging to the Mannor
of Davington aforesaid ever since the Rental thereof
made out at the Courts Baron of the said Mannor on the
third day of January Anno Dni 1631, and the six and
twentieth day of June 1632, now drawne out at the Court Baron of
the said mannor holden on the eight and twentieth day of October An-
no Dni 1695, att the command of Mrs. Mary Bode, Lady of the said
Mannor, for the use of herself and Tenants of the said Mannor and by
John Kennett, Esq r Steward there, collected out of the Court booke
or Rolls of the said Mannor, beginning at the said Court holden on
the said third day of January 1631.

The names of
the Tenants in

the BentsJ,
anno Dni 163}.

Bartholomew Back.

The names of
the several Te-
nants since.

For a house and
garden on the

east side of Tan-
ners Street in

Fayersham.

Bent 6 d p. ann.

Oct. 18, 1693.
Bentaf d .

Nicholas Lorrymore.
Att a Court holden the 10th Nov. 1645, the
. Homage psent that Bartholemew Back had aliened
the house and garden to Nicholas Lorrymore.

Att a Court holden 23 d Feb. 1651, Edward the ]
son of Nicholas Lorrymore acknowledged his >
Tenure of the premises and enters himself Tenant, J Tr y m
as given him by his Father's will.

Edward
ore.

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Robert
Thurston.

For a house and
garden on the
south side of
West Street in
Feversham.
Rent 2' per an*
num.

Oct 28, 1695,
rent paid.

Eliz. Hale.

Widdow of Tho-
mas Hale for a
capital mess,
and garden and
a parcell of land
containing half
an acre on the
north side of
West Street in
Faversham.
Also for three

At a Court holden the 28th Nov, 1656, William
Bartlett acknowledged his Tenure &c. of the pmis-
ses and enters &c. as by purchase from Edward
Lorrymore.

Att a Court holden the 8th Nov. 1677, William
Bartlett tenant of the p'misses dyed and left them
to Bartlett, widow, his relict for her life.

Att a Court holden the 26th Feb. 1690,

Bartlet, Widd : of William Bartlett, is dead, and
the pmisses descended therefore to Edward Gads-
bey in the right of Mary his wife, sole daughter
and heire of William Bartlett.

Att a Court holden 10th Nov. 1645, Robert
Thurston aliened this house &c. to Peter Ben-
net, and that he dying left it to his relict, Mary.

Att a Court holden the 18th Oct. 1699, Tho-
mas Baker, who had married Mary, the relict of
Peter Bennet, acknowledged his Tenure, &c. of
the premises as in right of his said wife and en-
tered, &c.

Att a Court holden the 21 Apr. 1659, Thomas
Baker and Mary his wife, y e relict of Peter Ben-
net, aliened the premises to Jn° Baker.

Att a Court holden the 8th Nov. 1677, John
Baker is dead, and he left the premises to Susan
his wife for life.

Att a Court holden the 23d Feb. 1651, The ho-
mage decide this rent and apportioned it at 8 d apiece,
and present that Elizabeth dying, they descend to
James Hale, the son of Thomas, and Heir; and
that James Hale dying, she gave the capital mes-
suage, garden, and piece of land to Thomas Hale,
his eldest son, who present in Court acknow-
ledges of that, and enters at the rent of 8 d .

William
Bartlett.

Widow
Bartlett.

Edward
and Mary
Gadsbey.

Thomas

and Mary

Baker.

• John Baker.

Susan
Baker.

Thomas
Hale.

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tenements and
gardens former-
ly pcell of the

Rent xvij d per
ann.

Oct. 28, 1695,
rent p*.

As to the second
parcell.

October 28,

1695,

rent p^ 1 .

George Hale,
son of Thomas
Hale, for a house

Att a Court holden the 17th Oct. 1662, Mark 1
Cullen acknowledges his Tenure, and enters &c. by >
virtue of a purchase from Thomas Hale.

Att a Court holden the 26th Feb. 1690,
Mark Cullen is dead, and the premises came to
Mark Cullen, his only son and heir, and that
Mark Cullen (the son) is also dead, and the pre-
mises descended to Mary, the wife of John Gil-
low, the only sister and heir of Mark Cullen, the
son, and John and Mary Gillow are both also
dead, and the premises descend to Mary Gillow
and Margarett Gillow, infants, the only children,
daughters and coheirs of the said John and Mary
Gillow.

Att the above Court, holden 23d Feb. 1651, ^
Elizabeth Hale dying, those three tenements and
gardens together with the capital messuage des-
cended to James Hale, the son of her and her hus-
band Thomas, and that James is dead, and gave
these to James Hale, one of his sonnes, by his will,
who, being an infant, his brother Thomas Hale,
as his guardian, acknowledges the Tenure &c. at
the rent of 8 s as apportioned by ye homage as
above saith.

Att a court holden the 8th Nov. 1677, James -
Hale (the son) is dead, and gave the premises by
his will amongst his brother and sisters, and their
children, viz. to James, John, and Ann Hale, the
children of his brother Thomas Hale, and to
James, Prudence, Elizabeth, and John Carbey,
the son and daughters of his sister Prudence, the
wife of .... Carbey.

Att a Court holden 23 Feb. 1651, Henry Hale
another son of James Hale (the son of Elizabeth,

Mark
Cullen.

Mary and

Margaret

Gillow.

James
Hale.

James,
John, and
Ann Hale.

James, Pru-
dence, Eli-
zabeth, and
John Car-
bey.

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and garden, for-
merly the Shop,
adjoining to the
east aide of ca-
pitall house
aforesaid.

Rent 16 d per

West part of
the house called
ye Shop.

Oct. 28, 1695,
rent p d .

East part of the
house call'd ye
Shop.

Oct'. 28* 1695,
rent p*.

by Thomas,) comes and acknowledges his tenure
of this house, called the Shop, as of the gift of his
father, and enters upon it at a Court there holden
the 17th Oct. 1662. John Carbey, the husband of
Prudence, who was the daughter of the said
Henry, comes and acknowledges his tenure as in
his wife's right, together with James Hale her
brother, and one of the sons of the said Henry, of
the gift of the said Henry by will.

Att a Court holden 8th Nov. 1677, James Hale
made partition of the premises betwixt him and
his sister Prudence Carbey, and since that is dead,
and that his part descends to Thomas Hale, his
brother and heir ; and that Prudence Carbey is
also dead, and that her part descends to her sons
and coheirs, James Carbey and John Carbey;
whereupon the rent was apportioned to 8 d each
part, and accordingly Thomas Hale acknowledges
his tenure for his part, at the rent of 8 d per ami.
and enters himself as a tenant.

Att a Court holden 26th Feb. 1690, John Hale
acknowledges his tenure of one moyety of the s d
house called the Shop, and enters &c. as only son
and heir of Thomas Hale last above mentioned.

Att a Court holden the 28th Oct. 1695, that his
house being divided and John Carbey and James
Carbey seized of the east part thereof as coheirs :
John Carbey is dead, and so his part descended
to James Carbey the only brother and heir ; and
that James Carbey being so seized of that whole
moyety aliened the same to Abraham Mackaree,
who acknowledges the tenure and enters yt at y e
rent of 6 d per ann.

Att a Court holden 10th Nov. 1645, Stephen

Henry
Hale.

Prudence

Carbey and

James

Hale.

Thomas
Hale.

James and

John

Carbey.

John
Hale.

Abraham
Mackaree.

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89

Stephen, John,

and Robert
Allenforahonae
near the market-
place in Faver-

Bent at 6 d per

Bent then p*

Gibbon
Hawker.

For an orchard
behind his honae
in Tanners
Street in Faver-
sham late Bar-
gars.

BentS 111 per
ann.

8 Not' 1677,
rentp*.

Robert
Hicks.

Forapcellof
woodland called
Lamberkins

Allen comes and claims the whole pmises, for
that this Robert dying, his third part of ye pmises
came to him the said Stephen and the other bro-
ther Allen, & that John sold his part, viz. a moye-
ty of the pmises to him. So Stephen acknow-
ledges his tenure, and enters himself tenant of the
whole.

Att a court holden the 23 d Feb. 1651, Ste-
phen Allen aliened the pmises to William Baker.

Att a court holden the 12 Nov. 1673, William -
Baker is dead, and that the pmises descended to
Mary the wife of Robert Mingay, only daughter
of William Baker.

Att a court holden 8 th Nov* 1677, John Carter
comes & acknowledges his tenure of the pmises,
& enters it as by his purchase from Robert Min-
gay and Mary his wife.

Att a court holden 28 Oct r 1695, John Hu-
gessen, Gent, comes & acknowledges his tenure
of the pmises, & enters as by his purchase from
the heirs of John Carter.

Att a court holden 26 Feb. 1690, that this or- •)
chard came to John Sherwin, who dying gave it
by his will to his son and daughter, William Sher-
win & Martha Sherwin, & that afterwards the said
William & Martha aliened the same to James
Wood, & that James Wood. hath since aliened
that to Thomas Usborne.

Att a court holden the 21 Apr. 1659, the
homage psent the death of Robert Hicks, 8c that
he dyed seized of the pmises but know not who
is his heir.

N

Stephen
Allen.

William
Baker.

Mary
Mingay.

John
Carter.

John
Hugessen.

Thomas
Usborne.

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Wood cont. 3
acres in
Ospringe.

Bent 8 d in
money,
one hen, ]
one cock, I per

eight J ann.

eggs, J

Rent then p d .

John
Green-
streete.

For a prcell of
land called Jack
Hales Croft at
Whitehill in
Ospringe neere
Portalla land.

Rent 6* and one
henne per ann.

Rent then p d .

Francis
Pordage.

For 2 peeces of
land called Ste-
reshes cont. ten

1

Att a court holden 12 Nov r 1673, Anne ye re-
lict of Robert Hicks held the premises for her
life, & that she is dead, but know not to whom
it is descended.

Att a court holden 26 Nov' 1680, Robert
Hicks, eldest son of the said Robert Hicks, comes Robert
& acknowledges his tenure of the premises, to- am j Thomas
gether with his brother Thomas Hicks (not yet of | Hicks.
age), sons and coheirs of the abovesaid Robert
Hicks, & enters it.

Att a court holden 26 Feb. 1690, the homage "|
psent that Robert and Thomas Hicks aliened the r
praises to John Bax and Susan his wife. J

Att a court holden the 10 th Nov r 1645, John T
Greenstreete is dead, & that the gmisses des-
cended to his son Peter, & that the said Peter
is alsoe dead, & thereuppon it descended to the
heires of Peter.

John Bax

and Susan

his wife.

Att a court holden 12 Nov. 1673, Peter Greene-
streete, the only surviving son of the abovenamed
Peter, comes & acknowledges his tenure & enters
yt.

Att a court holden the 8 Nov. 1677, that Pe-
ter Greenestreete the son is also dead, and that
by his will he gave the pmisses to his son Peter
an infant.

Att a court holden 28 Oct. 1695, Peter Greene-
streete ye grandson, comes and acknowledges his
tenure, &c. & enters it.

Att a court holden 28 Nov' 1656, Arthure
Whatman comes and acknowledges his tenure of
this land, as by purchase from Pordage, & enters
himselfe tenant accordingly.

Peter
Greene-
streete.

Peter
Greene-
streete.

Arthur
Whatman.

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91

acres at Kenna-
ways in Og-

pringe.

Rent 2* two

heones, one

cocke, thirty

eggs, per ann.

Alsoe S other
pcelU of lande,
Conrbourne,
containinge 2
acres in Os-

Bent

pnnge.
$nt4«p<

per

28 Oct 1695,

Rent p d by

Widd. Henman.

John

Knowler,

Jun r .

For a house and

orchard cont. 5

acres in

Davington.

Rent 2* per

ann.

Rent then p*.

Att a court holden 12 Nov r 1673, Arthur
Whatman also purchased this land alsoe of Por-
dage, & therefore, &c.

Att a court holden 8 th Nov r 1677, Arthur
Whatman is dead, and by his will gave both these
pcells to . . . Day, widd w , and that she hath since
aliened it to Richard Whatman.

Att a court holden the 16 Nov r 1680, Thomas
Knowler comes and acknowledges his tenure, &
enters as by purchase from Richard Whatman.

Att a court holden the 26 Feb. 1690, Thomas
Knowler hath aliened the pmises to Josiah
Dewy.

Att a court holden the 14th Oct r 1634, John
Knowler comes and acknowledges his tenure of
the pmisses, and enters, &c.

Att a court holden 12 Nov. 1673, that John
Knowler aliened the pmisses to John Ashbey,
who married Susan, one of the daughters of John
Knowler.

Att a court holden the 16 Nov r 1680, Susan,
the relict of John Ashbey, comes and claims the
pmisses uppon and from the death of her hus-
band John Ashbey, to hold the same for her life,
and enters, &c.

Att a court holden the 26 Feb* 1690, Ashbey
is dead, and that the pmises are descended to
John Ashbey (an infant), onely son and heire of
John and Susan Ashbey, dec d .

Att a court holden 28 Oct r 1695, John Ash-
bey aliened the pmises to Robert Sharstead, and
that the s d Robert hath since that aliened the
same to William Day, who being psent, acknow-
ledges his tenure, & enters, &c.

} Arthur
Whatman.

i

Day Wid-
dow, Rich d
Whatman.

Thomas
Knowler.

Josiah
Dewy.

John
Knowler.

i

John
Ashbey.

Susan
Ashbey.

John
Ashbey,
infant.

Robert
Sharstead,
afterwards

William
Day.

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Thomas
Waterman.

For a messuage
neare the mar-
ket* place in Fa-
versham on the
west aide of
Court streete.
Rent 2 Bh. per
ann.

Rent then paid.

Dorothy
Hutt.

For the five
Bells in Os-
pringe Streete .
on ye south side.

Rent 5 d per
ann.

28 Oct' 1695,
rent p d .

Att a court holden the 18 Oct. 1653, Thomas
Waterman is dead, and that the pmises descended
and came to Amy his daughter, who was married
to Cheney Bourne, and that Amy is since dead
alsoe,& that it came thereuppon to Cheyney Bourne
for life.

Att a court holden 8 th Nov. 1677, Cheyney
Bourne is dead, & thereuppon the pmisses des-
cended or came to Frances the wife of Thomas
Smith as sole daughter & heire of Amy the
daughter of Thomas Waterman, & that Thomas
Smith & Frances his wife have aliened the pmises
to William Burnham, who acknowledges his te-
nure, &c. & enters, &c.

Att a court holden 28 Oct. 1695, William
Burnham is dead, & gave the pmisses by will
to his nephew John Burnham, & that the s d
John Burnham hath since aliened it to Daniel
Silver, who married the sister of John & Daniel
Silver being psent acknowledges, &c. & enters,
&c.

At a court holden the 17 Oct. 1662, the hom-
age psent that Dorothy, the wife of Simon Hutt,
who held the pmises & is dead, and that there-
uppon it came to one Thomas Bridge, but how
the Jury are ignorant.

Att a court holden the 12 Nov. 1673, Thomas
Bridge aliened the pmisses to John Tomlyn, and
that after that the s d John Tomlyn aliened the
same to William Humersham, and being psent
acknowledges, &c. & enters, &c.

Att a court holden 26 Feb* 1690, William Hu-
mersham is dead, & that the pmisses are des-
cended to John Humersham, his only son & heire.

}

Cheyney
Bourne.

Thomas &
Frances

Smith,
afterwards

William
Burnham.

John

Burnham,

► afterwards

Daniel

Silver.

Thomas
Bridge.

John
Tomlyn,
afterwards
William
Humer-
sham.

John Hu-
mersham.

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93

John Ro-
binson.

For a messuage
on ye east ride of
Tanners Streete
in Faversham.
Bent 6 d per

ann.
Rent then p*.

Att a court holden 28 Oct. 1695, John Robin-
son comes and acknowledges to hold the premis-
ses & enters, as having bought it of James Lor-

ryman, who was the son & heire of Mor-

gesson, Widd : who was the mother of James
Lorryman.

John
Robinson.

of ll'
of J

8 d

p. ann.

Memorandum. In the other paper Rental without a Date there are these
gticulars w* are not yet brought in (viz.) —

" Thomas Napleton. Ffor a Brewhouse formerly Thomas Ten-
nacres, sometime in the Occupacion
William Maytott. by the yearly rent <

Ffor a house in Ore Streete late Knights "> s 6 d ob. p
and before that William Harts . . J ann.

Ffor a gcell of ground under great Da- 1 j 8 Qd m ^
vington sometymes Symonds . . J

Ffor the Bull yard in Ospringe Streete . 8 d per ann.

Ffor Humphreys Croft in Lamberkins ■> s 8 d ,onehen,
Croft on the West side of the high way I halfe a cocke
and to the Maison Dieu Land north [ 8 eggs per
and east. Rent . . .J ann.

Ffor a croft of land at Brookes forstall ) B 6 d ob. p.
at the rent of . . . . .3 ann.

Ffor north Dane rent . 2 s , 2 hennes, 1 cocke

per annum.
Ffor Blanks rent . . 8 d ob. 1 henne, 8 eggs

per annum.
Ffor Draytons Fforstall als. Nich. Ffor-
stall at Whitehill, then Greenestreetes.

Rent 9 d , 2 hennes per annum.

Ffor a pcell of land at Brooke, sold by
Hales to Drayton, and by him to
Greenestreete . . . Rent 6 d per annum.

Brooke Butt.

S' John Mill.

S* John's College.
Francis Pordige.

The heires of Tilden

of Maidstone.
Taylor.

Taylor.

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appenbt* VI.

RIORESSES of the Nunnery of St. Mary Magdalene,
Davington.

But few names of the Prioresses have been pre-
served. Dugdale's Monasticon (Lond. 1823, vol. iv.
p. 289) gives only six of them : —

Lucy de Apuldrefield ; resigned 3 Kal. Nov. 1350. 1
Margaret Borstall; appointed 2 Nones Nov. 1350.*

election confirmed Sept. 26, 1383. 3
died 1 March, 1436.
election confirmed 1436. 4
living Nov. 30, 1498. 5
Matilda Dynemarke; who died 11 March, 26 Hen. VIII,
1535, is mentioned in the report of the Escheator,
27th of the same reign. This prioress, with one
nun, Elizabeth Audle, 6 and one lay sister, Sybilla
Monyngs, were the last of the establishment.
It is shown by the return made by Sir John Hawkyns, then parson
of Norton, to the Commissioners of the General Ecclesiastical Valua-
tion, 26th Henry VIII, that there was a prioress then existing, as he

Isabella Northoo ;
Loreta Sorender ;
Alice Lindesey ;
Joan ;

1 Reg. Islip Archiep. Cantuar. fol. 32, b.

* Ibid.

3 Reg. Courtenaye Archiep. fol. 54, b.

4 Reg. Chichele Archiep. fol. 50, b.

4 Joan, mentioned in the grant to Sir Thomas Cheney, Knt., as prioress, living 30th Not.
14 Henry VII. a. D. 1498.

• She died 20th June, 26 Henry VIII.

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deducted " for a pension yerly to the Prioresse of Davyngtou, 6 A 8 d ."
Dugdale's Monasticon, vol. iv. p. 288, in note.

The nuns of Davington wore the usual Benedictine habit ; a black
coat, cloak, cowl, and veil. Lewis, in his Hist, of Faversham, Daving-
ton, &c. p. 77, represents one of them underwritten " A Benedictine or
black nun of Davington." (See opposite.) s

Appendix VP.

MINISTERS OF DAVINGTON CHURCH.

Patrons, or by whom Curates,

presented.

The King . Richard Milles, A.M., July 12th, 1625. 1

Margaret Bode, widow Francis Worral, inducted 1666.

John Sherwin, A.M., ob. Jan y . 17, 17fJ:. 2
Thos. Lees, Jun r . A.M., March 9, 1713, ob.

Sept. 1728. 3
Robert Harrison, A. M., ob. 1755. 4
Richard Halke.*

Francis Frederick Giraud, A. M., 1781, re-
signed 1794. 6

1 He was presented by the King's letters patent to the rectory or chapelry of Davington.
Ryra. FcBd. vol. xviii. p. 647.

1 He was rector of Luddenham, and patron and proprietor of this church, in which he lies
buried. (See Monuments in Churchyard.)

9 He was buried at Faversham. His father was rector of Goodneston.

4 Also rector of Luddenham, and perpetual curate of Oare. He held the curacy of Daving-
ton from the year 1729.

* From 1766 to 1779.

* Also vicar of Preston, and curate of Oare.

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George Nay lor, 1794. 7
Subsequently to the death of George Naylor, there does
not appear to have been any official appointment.

Joshua Dix would seem by the registers to have offi-
ciated from 1812 to 1832, with tolerable regularity,
and

John Birt, D.D , vicar of Faversham, from 1833 to
1847.

During the intermediate times a great number of
persons are mentioned in the Registers as having performed
the Offices of Baptism, Marriage, and Burial, many on one
occasion only; these were generally the ministers or curates
of neighbouring churches.

Since the regular celebration of services within the
Priory Church, which commenced on the 25th of March,
1849, the Ministers appointed by the present Patron
have been : —

1849, Henry Cosgrave, M.A., who continued until his fatal

illness in 1856. 8
Dec. 31, 1856, James Henry Tomlinson Blunt, M.A., who resigned

in 1861.
Jan. 23, 1861, Maximilian Nunes, B.D., died Sept. 7th, 1861.
March 25, 1862, Joseph West— Bramah, M. A.

The services of the Church of England are now duly performed every Sunday,
as also on Christmas Day and Good Friday. The morning service commences at
half-past ten o'clock ; the evening service^ during the summer months, at half-past
six ; in the winter season at three o'clock. At both services a sermon is preached.
The Holy Communion is celebrated on the second Sunday in every month.

" Divine service is performed in this church at the will of the proprietor, bat generally
once a month, and he pays the clergyman for officiating in it. The proprietor claims exemp-
tion for this church from the jurisdiction of the archdeacon or any other ordinary, and accord-
ingly regularly opposes their visiting of it." Thus far Hasted, vol. ii. p. 729.

7 From 1794 to 1799. * Buried in Davington churchyard. See Monumental Inscriptions.

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Appendix VI c .

THE REGISTERS OF DAVINGTON CHURCH.

The Register Books are contained in five volumes, lettered A to F.

Volume the first, marked A, is a narrow upright folio of vellum, of
73 pages, inscribed within the cover, " The Register Booke of the Pa-
rishe of Davingtone. 1549."

The first entry stands thus : —

"Anol649,

The vi of October wer marryed

Willia Peterson k Agnes Bever."

The last entry in this volume is on July 7, 1782. On the top of
the fifty-fifth page is written, " ten added leaves."
At the end of this memorandum occurs : —

" N. B. This regster was pretended to be lost till Dec. 1766,
so y* no account has been kept, y* service having been performed
by different persons." 1

On one page, under the name of " the Rev d Robert Harrison, Cu-
rate," is written "Mvi Glor./'* and in another place, without any name,
" Gwell anga na gwithil tarit." 3

i This volume has various entries of collections by Briefs. See Appendix YI d .
1 Probably for " Ave Gloria," Hail Glory ! or Hail in Glory !

* In modern Welsh, the sentence, " GweU angau na chwylydd," translated, would be, "Bit-
ter death than thame."

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98 APPENDIX VI.

Register Book, marked B, is a paper quarto of fifty-three pages.
It commences Aug. 24, 1701, part of book A being transcribed, and
terminates on the 17th of October, 1812.

On the first leaf is this entry : —

"The Register of Davington having for a few years been lost, 4
by desire of the Parishioners I have wrote this Extract for
the last seventy years, which, I declare, is a true Copy.

" Witness my Hand,
Nov. 23, 1770. " Richard Halke, Curate/'

The Register Book C, folio paper, entitled,

" A register of marriages belonging to the Parish of Daving-
ton, Kent,"

contains first, entries of ten marriages from Sept. 27, 1785, to
June 27, 1789,

followed by this notice : —

u This register was carefully and correctly transcribed on
the 31st December, 1807, by me,

" Edward Cockayne Frith, Curate."

u I have examined the transcript by the Rev. Edw. Cock-
ayne Frith, and do certify that it is perfectly correct with
the original in my possession.

" T. Bennett,

1 Jan* 1808. Patron."

Then follow the entries of eight marriages, from Jan y 18, 1800, to
Oct. 11, 1807; then,—

"A register of Baptisms belonging to the Parish of Davington."
This begins Nov. 9, 1783, and terminates on June 11th, 1813.

4 The register book A. terminates July 7tb, 1782. All the entries therein have been
copied into book B, and are there carried on from that date to Oct. 17, 1812; but in both
volumes there is an hiatus from between September 6, 1761, to Dec. 14, 1766.

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After this, —

"A register of Burials belonging to the Parish of Davington,"
beginning May 15, 1785, ending Sept. 10, 1812. 5

The Register Book D contains a continuation of the marriages in
the Book C, beginning at October 20, 1807, ending Oct. 17, 1812.

Then a continuation of the baptisms from April 10, 1808, to
June 11, 1812.

Afterwards, a continuation of the Burials, beginning March 12,
1808, ending Sept. 10, 1812.°

Volume E is the parliamentary folio, entitled, —

" Register of Baptisms in the Parish of Saint Mary Mag-
dalen, Davington, in the county of Kent. Lond. by G. Eyre and A.
Strahan. In pursuance of an Act of Parliament, 52 Geo. III. cap.
146."

The entries commence Feb. 26, 1813, and end April 7, 1861.

Volume F. The parliamentary folio, 52 Geo. III. cap. 146,
entitled, —

" Register of Marriages in the parish of Saint Mary Mag-
dalen, Davington, in the County of Kent." The first entry is Feb. 6,
1813, the last Dec. 12, 1831.

Volume G. The parliamentary folio, 52 Geo. III. cap. 146^
entitled, —

" Register of Burials in the Parish of Saint Mary Magda-
len, Davington, in the County of Kent," commencing Feb. 11, 1813,
and ending Oct. 15, 1860.

* All these entries of baptisms, marriages, and burials are to be found in the preceding vo-
lume B.

• These also are inserted in volume B.

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100 APPENDIX VI.

Volume H. Oblong folio," pursuant to Act VI. VII. Gulielmi IV.
cap. 86."

" Register of Marriages, Church of Saint Mary Magdalene,
Davington, Kent/'

The eti tries here begin Dec. 25, 1852, and have been regularly con-
tinued.

Summary of entries in the Registers of the Priory of Davington, from
their commencement in 1549 to the present time.

Baptisms, Male . . 341 1

Female . 341 J 6b2
Burials, Male . . . 429 "l

„ Female . , 332 J /61
Marriages, by Banns . 54
„ „ Licence 34
„ „ Register's^!
certificate]

" -"ST}!-

Mote.— Forty-five Marriages by Banns have been celebrated in
Davington Church since the passing of the " Act for the better pre-
venting Clandestine Marriages/' 26 Geo. II. a. d. 1753.

V 283

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Appendix VI d .

Thb first Volume has been reversed for notices of Briefs, and on
the back of p. 64 occur the following entries : —

" Sept. 19, 1675, Collected in ye parish church of Davington to
Walton Brief six shillings and a halfe penny.
"Io: Sherwin, Curate."
" Nov. 28, 1675, to Oswestree Brief, 3 s If 1 ." I. S.
« Sept. 17, 1676, to Newent Brief, 4* 8 d ." I. S.
" Oct. 16, to Topsham Brief, 4» 5 d ." I. S.

" Apr. 29, 1677, to Brief for the Hungarian ministers, 6* 8 d ." I. S.
" Aug. 19, to Brief for Cottenham, 3» 10 d ." I.S.

" Oct. 3, to Brief for Northampton, 1 !• 6 d ." I. S.

" March 3, 1677 (8), to Brief for Chilton near Eaton by Windsor,

6»2 d ." I.S.
«' March 31, 1678, to ye Brief for Blandford parva, 4« 4 d ." I. S.
" June 23, to ye Brief for Rickmersworth, 6 s 0*." I. S.

" Sept. 29, to ye Brief for Wem, 4» d ." I. S.

" May 1, 1679, to ye Brief for Pattingham, 6*." I. S.
" May 25, to ye Brief for Harlington, (Midd*) 1» 6 d ." I. S.

On reversed page 63 : —
u June 22, to ye Brief for St. M. Magda. Bermondsey, 3» 6 d ."

I.S.
" Sept 14, to ye Brief for Amphill, 2* 6 d ." I. S.

" Nov. 9, to ye Brief for Dover, 2 s OV*

" July 19, 1680, to ye Brief for English Captives, 13* O 4 ."
"June 19, 1681, to ye Brief for East Dearham, 1» 10 d ."
" Sept 1 1, to ye Brief for Stafford, 2» 6 d . M

u Oct. 9, to ye Brief for East Budley, 2» 9 d ."

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" Nov. 6, 1681, to ye Brief for Caister, I s 6 d ."
" Jan* 3, (2) to ye Brief for French Protestants, 7 s 6 d ."

" Jan* 29, (2) to ye Brief for Bishton, I s 10*."

" Feb. 26, (2) to ye Brief for ye Polish Protestants, 2 s 0V'
" March 26, 1682, to ye Brief for Hansworth, 1» 10*."
" May 25, to ye Brief for St. Albans in Hertfordshire, 3 s OV

" July 2, to ye Brief for Preston Caudever, I 8 O* 1 ."

"July 15, to the Brief for Presteigne in ye county of Rad-

nor, I s 4 d ."
" Aug. 15, to ye Brief for London, 1» l d ."

" Sept. 10, to ye Brief for New Windsor, 1» 10V'

" Oct. 8, to ye Brief for St. Thomas in Southwark, 1" 3 d ."

" Dec. 3, to ye Brief for Collumpton in Devon, I s 4 d ."

" May 13, 1683, to ye Brief for Ensham, I s 6 d ."
"June 10, to ye Brief for St. Katherines, 1» 9 d ."

" July 8, to ye Brief for Braintford, 1» 4 d ."

" Sept. 30, to ye Brief for Stoke, I s 9 d ."

" April 15, 1684, to ye Brief for Newmarket, 3» 9 d ."
"Sept. 18, to ye Brief for Portsmouth, I s l d ."

" Oct. 12, to ye Brief for Cawston, 1» 6^ d ."

"Jan. 4, 1684 (5), to ye Brief for Warsop, 2 s l£ d ."
" Feb. 2, 1684 (5), to ye Brief for Channel Row, 2- 7 d ."
"Jan. 2, 1686 (7), to ye Briefe for Haxby, 2* 2 d ."

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MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS WITHIN THE CHURCH.

ORTIONS of numerous slabs, which evidently once had
on them handsome brasses, and others retaining parts of
incised inscriptions, have been frequently found in the
church. Only one entire slab remains, on which a few
incised letters are visible, " ercy + thomas," at the

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head, and "cy.dieu" at the lower end, the centre being much
worn away apparently by the passing of feet A stone coffin, which
was formerly partly inserted in the north wall of the aisle under an
arched recess : a sculptured cover, but not of the same size as the
coffin, was discovered in another part of the church. These are shown
in the vignette, p. 103.

On a brass plate against the south wall of the nave.

The figures of a man and woman kneeling on each side of a Prie-
Dieu, on which are two open books. Behind the man a youth kneel-
ing; behind the woman the figure of a maiden kneeling ; on the ground
two children lying, swaddled. Above, in the centre, within an orna-
mental shield, a coat of four quarterings, viz. 1 st. Ermine, a lion rampant
guardant, gules; on a canton, or, an eagle displayed, sable; 2nd,
Azure, two lions passant in pale, or ; 3rd. Sable, a griffon segreant,
ermine; 4th. Sable, three bulls' heads, two and one couped, argent.
(See Plate VI.)

" Anna 1 Johannis Edwardi uxor consanovinea in primo oradv
Domino Wotton, morituur 8° Mabtii 1613. in introitu anni
climacterici 8u2b etati8 63. bt hoc marmore teg itu r ; dom

VIXIT, FC7IT BRGA DeUM PIA, ERGA OMNES JUSTA, V1TM INCORRUP-
TJE, NULLI DANS JUBTAM OFFEN8IONEM, ERGA VIRUM, LIBBROS, AC
TOTAM FAMILIAM, AMAN8, AC 80LLICITA, ERGA PAUPBRE8 MI8E-
RICORS,IN VOCATIONE 8UAFRUGALIS. DeNIQ VITAM PIORU VIVBN8, IuS-
TORUM MORTEM MORI ENS, AC RESURBECTIONE FIDELIU EXPECT A N8
VIVENDO MORITUR, MORIENDO VIXIT."

1 M The family name of this lady does not appear either here or in the Davington Register.
No aims are given to her in the plate above. Her burial is not mentioned in the register.
This brass is said to have stood against the wall of the church, under the east window. M Tour
through the Isle of Thanet and some other parts of East Kent " ( ? Cozens), printed by Nichols,
London, 4 to. 1723, p. 342. But this, to say the least, is very problematical.

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APPENDIX VII. 105

On a slab on the pavement of the nave :—

" Here lyeth the body of John

Edwards of Davington Priory,

Gent, who died the 9th day of June

anno Domini 1631. being aged

87 years, leaving only one
daughter and heyre married to
John Bode of Essex. Gent."*

On a brass plate against the south wall of the nave : —

The figure of a woman kneeling at a table, on which lies an
open book. Towards the left, within a lozenge, surrounded by a
wreath, the arms are, Sable, a chevron between three leopards' faces,
argent. (See Plate VII.)

" Kathebina Lasheford 3 als Lyshford, filia Edmvndi Lyshfobd gen.
stirpe prognata in virginitate 8va existetb mobitvr 25° die

* He was buried 11th June. (Davington Register.)

9 The burial of Katherine Laahford ia not entered in the Davington Regiater. Her will,
dated Jan. 13, 1615, wherein she ia described as of Davington, near Faversham, contains the fol-
lowing clause : — " Item, to be paid unto the Maior, J orates, and Commonalty* of Feversham
fyftie pounds, to be implored by them in use, and they to keep the stocke whole still for the
yearly puttinge of one apprentice of some of the poore of the same Towne for ever, with the
consent of my Executors and the Survivor of them. And I desire them not to misuse this
my good meaning. And my mynd and will is that my Executors shall not take above eight
Pounds yearly for one hundred pounds use, and so proportionable for any some that they shall
let forth by this my Will."— Lewis' History ofFavenham, 4to. 1727, p. 71.

u Miss Lashford's money, after suits, amounted to no more than 3/. 1 j. 3d, Wherefore Mr.
John Edwards of Davington, out of his pious and charitable disposition, not willing that so
godly and charitable a gift, of which he was the first mover and adviser, should be shortened,
nor the good intent and careful desire of the said Testatrix be frustrated, did in his lifetime
enter into bond to pay 3/. per cent, per ann. during his life, and to leave 50/. to the same pur-
pose, to be paid at his death by his Executors, which was accordingly performed by John
Bode, Esq. and his wife, daughter of the said Mr. Edwards."— A Wardmote Book of Favtrtham,
Dec. 7, 1631, fol. 177.

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APRILJS 1616. IN INGRE88V ANNI 8VJB JEtATIB 26°. DVM VIXIT PVIT

SXIMIJS TAM ANIMI QYAM CORPORIS VIRTYTIBY8 OR N ATA, VIZ. IN

ReLLIGIONE PIA, IN MORIBVS ERGA OMNE8 BENIGNA, IN VVLTV MODB8TA,

IN VE8TITV CONCINNA, IN PATIENTIA AC SILBNTIO SPLENDENS,

IN VITJE CVR8V PRUGALI8, NVNQVAM OTIOSA, IN OMNIBY8 HOSPITIJ

NBGOTIJS PER1TA, ERGA AMIC08 COGNATOS ET AFFINE8 AMAN8 AC

80LLICITA, PAVPER1BV8 MI8ERICOR8, IN TOTA YITA MVLIEBRI 8EXYI

EX EM PL VM AC QYA81 PhCENIX;

Mors' de qvo laborabat, et ejvs finbm effecit, fyit acvtys,

divtvrnv8 ac langvidv8, fere p vnv annv intbgrv. viz. pvl-

monv consvmptio, Grec : Phthisis, lat : Tabes, qui totv corpv

svv ac omne8 radicale8 svos hvmorbs penitvs con8vmpsit. svpponitvr

morbvm illvm fvis8e hereditarivm qvia mater ejvs ac fratbr

db eodem morbo morivntvr.

toto tempore afflictionis sv-e patibntbr 8eip8a bona volvntatb ac prvdbnt1 a

Deo svbmisit, ac sepenumero a Deo petiit, ut cito ad se veniat, et

pr.scipvb in articvlo mortis vbhementer a deo rogavit ardbnti spiritv

vt ie8vs xpistvs tvnc ad se veniat, itterando verba illa trina vice,

nvnc dnb itfstanter, dne in8tanter, et sic accidit, qvia bode momento

xpistvs an imam 8vam ad se recepit.

Sic Deo vixit, ac Deo moritvb.

Stone on the pavement of the nave : —

"Anne the wife of John Bode

of Essex, Gent, and of

Davington Priorie, daughter

and heire of John Edwards

of Davington Priorie, lieth

here. Buried the 7 of

September, 1638."

Stone on the pavement of the nave : —

" Here lteth the Body of

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Elizabeth Bode, daughter
of John Bode of Davingt-
on Priory, Gent, whom he
had by Mary his first wi-
fe daughter to &" Edward
Boys of Fredyill in East
Kent, Knight. Shbdiedthb
17 of August Anno
Domini 1638." ♦

Stone on the pavement of the nave : —

"Here lybth
the Body of
Edward Bode
son of John Bode of
Davington Priory, Esq.
and of Margaret his Wife.
Who died
the xxvi of May
1659." *

Stone on the pavement of the aisle :—

" Elizabeth

daughter of
Robert and Anne

Harrison
aged 4 months

was buried
the 3 d June 1722." «

4 Buried 26 Aug. (Dav. Reg.) • Buried 30 May. (Dav. Reg.)

• Bapt. 19 Feb. 1721, 2. (Dar. Reg.)

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" Edward Ward of Davington
died^Octob.T
in his 59th year.
He married Katherine
only daughter of
Leonard and Cath. Mears
of Faversham
by whom he left
Edward and Mary."

On marble on south wall of the tower: —

" Juxta conditur
Anna Roberti Harrison
de Luddenham Rectoris Uxor
Devereux Whadcock de Warwick
generosi Filia
Eximiis animi et corporis
Dotibus instructa
Fide intemerata
Pacis domesticae studiosa
Simplici munditie ornata
cui ridebant Gratis.

Mortua est Sept. 16 an. \ D ' 17 3 , 6 „
r J ^Et. 34." 8

Marble tablet on south wall of the tower: —

" Near
this stone lieth the body

7 The date and age are imperfect on the stone, bnt Davington Register gives 7 Oct. 1729,
as the day of his burial, and designates him as " yeoman."

"Tour through Thanet and parts of East Kent" (Z. Cozens), 4to. Lond. 1793, p. 343, men-
tions " a paving tile at the south side of the above, inscribed I. Ward, 1712, aged 83 years."

8 Buried Sept. 19th. (Dav. Beg.)

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of Maby Bennett daughter
of Babtho w Bennett.
She died the 22 of January 1780*
aged 24 years,
at her right hand is interred the Body
of Mary Bennett her mother
wife of the said
Bartholomew Bennett.
She died the 27 April
1780
aged 62 years." 10

Marble tablet on south wall of the tower : —

" Near

this place lieth the Body

of John son of Babth w .

and Mart Bennett who died

the 24 of August. 1781

aged 33 years. " u

" Also
Bartholomew Bennett
who died the 22 of November 1795
aged 74 years." "

"Thomas Bennett Esq.

who died the 12 of August 1813

aged 54 years* 13

9 Buried 31 Jan. (Day. Beg.)

10 Buried 4 May. (Day. Beg.)

11 Son of u Bartholomew the elder, buried 27 Aug." (Day. Beg.)
18 Buried 24 Noy. (Day. Beg.)

" Buried 18 Aug. (Day. Beg.)

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and Diana his wife

died November 22

1826. aged 67 years." "

On the floor of the nave : —

" Beneath this stone

are deposited the

Remains of Margaret

wife of Mr. Thomas

Surgeon of Greenwich

who died the 10th of

November 1785

aged 42 years.

Leaving issue

two children

William and Margaret" ,5

On the floor of the nave : —

" In Memory of

Hector Munroe Esq.

a Lieut Colonel

in his Majestts Service.

who died at ospringe

the 31 op March 1827.

aged 54 years.** 10

On a small square stone in the aisle : —

" Diana Hosier Bennett, of Minster, Sfaepey, buried 28 Nov." (D»v. Rep.)
Buried 16 Nor. (Dar. Reg.)
Buried 7 April. (Dav. Reg.)

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" Robert
Plaxton.
1831.""

On brass on the east wall of the north aisle : —

" Within the vault beneath
the Sacristy are deposited

the mortal remains of

Harriott Jane Willement

who died unmarried Nov. 20,

1851, aged 57.*

Katharine wife of Thomas

Willement of this Priory, Esq.

daughter of the late Tho' Griffith,

Esq. and Katharine Coote his

wife. She died Aug. 4, 1852,

aged 56.'9

Arthur Thomas Willement,

Commoner of Christ Church,

son of Thomas Willement and

Katharine Griffith, his wife.

He died at Oxford June 5 th ,

1854, in the twenty first year

of his age. ,,fi0

Brass on the pier, south side of the aisle : —

" To the memory of
Mary Griffith who died at

17 " Robert Plaxton Turner of Davington, aged 2j, buried 17 June, 1831." (Daw Reg.)

18 Boned in the vault, 26 Nov. (Dav. Reg.)
" Buried in the vault, 12 Aug. (Dav. Reg.)
" Buried in the vault, June 15. (Dav. Reg.)

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Davington Priory unmarried
7 July 1856, aged 67/' «

"The Rev d Henry Cosgrave
M. A. minister of this
church from 1849 to

1857. Died Nov. 9, 1857.
aged 70." *

Appendix VIP.

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN DAVINGTON

CHURCHYARD.

On the top of a raised tomb : —

" Ad hunc parietem se condi voluit

Johannes Sherwin, A.M. Eccleste / de Luddenhara Rector

^ de Devmgton Patronus.

Favershamise natus

Oxoniae institutus

Ubique in pretio habitus

utpote qui doctus, abstemius, pacificus, pius,

Quodque non reticendum

In re musica peritissimus ;

cujus ingenii venustatem

ne ipsa quidem canities potuit deterere,

Obiit 17"°. die Januarii An. D. 1713.

iEtatissu8B74. ,,M

21 Buried in the vault, July 13. M See Churchyard Monuments, following.

* Buried 24 Jan. 1713, 4. (Dav. Reg.)

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On a head-stone : —

" Robert Beal

died 8 of November 1785,

aged 62 years. 3

also

Mary wife of the above

Robert Beal

died the 15 of August 1813

aged 73 years." *

On a head-stone :—

"John Beaching

died the 16 of February 1779.

aged 57 years. 5

Thomas Young

died the 30 of May 1810

aged 69 years." 6

On a head-stone : —

"To

the memory of Robert

Colegate and Sarah

his wife. He died March 3 d

1730 aged 48 years. 7 She died

March 8 1729 aged 34 years. 8

Likewise John their Son died

Decm r 10. 1729. aged 6 years.*

» Buried 13 Nov. (Dav. Reg.) « Buried 20 Aug. (Day. Reg.)

* Buried 20 Feb. (Dav. Reg.) 6 Buried from Faversham 3 June. (Dav. Reg.)

7 Buried 7 March 1730, 1. (Dav. Reg.) • Buried 11 March 1729, 30. (Dav. Reg.)
9 Buried 14 Dec. 1729. (Dav. Reg.)

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Also Rob 1 their Son died Dece r
31. 1740. aged 20 Years. 10 Left

surviving one Son and two
Daughters. WiH m Elizb. & Sarah.
This Stone was erected by their
Children."

On a head-stone :-

" William son
of Robert k

Sarah Colegate

died March
16. 1761. aged

33 years. 11 who
left Issue by

Mary his wife
three Sons &
one daughter

viz. Rob* Will :
Jo n & Marianne."

"Also Mary

wife of

William

Colbgate

who died the

7th of

September

1789

aged 58 years." lf

On a head-stone : —

"To

the MEMORY Of

M r William Colegate

of Fayersham.

who departed this life

the20 lh of Junel816. is

AGED 61 YEARS."

>° Buried 4 Jan. (Dav. Reg.)

19 Buried 6 («c) Sept. 1789. (Day. Reg )

11 Buried 19 March, 1761. (Dav.
" Buried 26 June. (Dav. Reg.)

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APPENDIX VII. 115

"To
the Memory of

M r John Colroate

late of London

who died the 30 lh . of July 1821.

Aged 61 Years." m

On a head-stone : —

" Sacred

to the memory of

Elizabeth

wife of Edward Gardner

and daughter of W m Colegate

of the town of Faversham

who departed this life June 14. 1830

aged 39 years." 1S

On a head-stone : —

" Sacred

to the memory of

Elizabeth

wife of William Colegate

of the Town of Faversham,

who departed this life March 3 d . 1833

AGED 76 YEARS." 16

14 Buried 8 Aug. (Day. Reg.) u Buried 17 June. (Dar. Reg.)

» Buried 10 March. (Day. Reg.)

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On a head-stone : —

" Sacred

tO the MEMORY Of

Mary-Anne

the wife of William Bristow
Alderman of the City op
Canterbury, and daughter of
William & Mary Colegatb
of O are Mill in this Parish.
She departed this life
the 26 of January 1845
aged 85 years." 17

On a nead-stone : —

"In memory of Mary the wife of
George Colegate of Faversham.
She died June 12 th 1856. aged 66 years/' ,8

" Also of the said George Colegate ;

who died December 2 d 1857 aged 69

years." 19

"In memory of Edward Colegate

of London; who died April 18. 1855

aged 59 years." 20

On a head-stone : —

" In memory of
William Hoy Longley
of London who died in

" Buried 2 Feb. 1845. " Boned Jane 16. (Dtv. Reg.)

19 Buried Dec. 6. (Day. Reg.) *> Buried at Paddington, Middlesex.

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Faversham July 12 th 1855, aged 25."

Also of William Longley

of London who died Sept. 25. 1855

aged 76/' *

On a head-stone : —

" In memory of

Elizabeth

daughter of the Rev.

Joshua and Elizabeth Dix

who died September 5 th , 1812

aged 3 months." 23

" Also

Robert their Son

who died February 17, 1815

aged 6 months." 24

On a head-stone: —

"To

the MEMORY OP

William Bennett late of this
Parish, who departed this life
the 7 th of December 1766.
aged 51 years. 85
Also Mary wife of
William Bennett
died the 4 ,h of April 1793
aged 80 years." *

« Buried 16 July. (Dav. Reg.) » Buried 28 Sept. (Dav. Reg.)

» Buried 10 Sept. (Dav. Reg.) » Buried 24 Feb. (Dav. Reg.)

* Buried 14 Dec. 1766. (Dav. Reg.) * Buried from Folkestone, 11 April. (Dav. Reg.)

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On a head-stone : —

"To
the Memory of
Bartholemew Bennett.

He died 27 Oct r

1778. aged 29 Years. 87

at his left hand lies John son of

the said Bartholemew Bennett

who died 21 of Janua* 1780

aged 7 years." **

On a head-stone : —

"To

the memory of

Sarah

wife of William Bennett, Jun r

who died the 22 d of May 1829

aged 33 years." 89

On a head-stone : —

"To

the Memory of

William Eason

of this Parish

who died the 12 th of February

1813. aged 77 Years." 30

On a head-stone : —

" In memory of
John son of

17 Buried 2 Nov. (Dav. Reg.) * Buried 25 Jan. (Dav. Reg.)

» Burled 27 May. (Dav. Reg.) » Buried 16 Feb. (Dav. Reg.)

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William and Elizabeth Monk

who died the 5 th of January

1828 Aged 4 years and 4 months. Sl

Also William their son

died the 19 th of March 1830

aged 4 months." M

On a body-stone : —

" Alfred Percy Curling, died

Aug 1 6, 1853.
aged 1 year and 9 months."*

" Clara Elizabeth Curling died Oct. 5. 1854
aged 6 years and 11 months." 34

" William Monk Curling died
Sept. 9, 1846
aged 1 month." 35

" Henrietta Sophia Curling died
April 7, 1851.
aged 8 months." *

On a head-stone :

"To

the MEMORY of

William Wilks. Gent :
who died 2 of September
1806 aged 84 years/' 37

91 Buried 13 Jan.

(Dav. Reg.)

93 Buried 28 March. (Dav. Reg.)

99 Buried 10 Aug.

(Dav. Reg.)

94 Buried 9 Oct. (Dav. Reg.)

* Buried 14 Sept.

(Dav. Reg.)

98 Buried 11 April. (Dav. Reg.)

97 Buried 7 Sept.

(Dav. Reg.)

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" Also James his Brother
• who died 6 th July 1786
aged 71 years." 38

On a head-stone : —

" Here lie the mortal remains of
the Rev d Henry Cosgrave A. M.

late Minister of this Parish.

who died on ix November 1867

aged 70 years."*

" I look for the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come."

On a head-stone : —

" Sacred
to the memory of
Charles Tucker.
late of Faversham
who died on the 4 th day of June
1858
aged 49 years." 40

" Prepare to meet thy God.
On a head-stone : —

" To the memory of

Mary Wildash

who died the l Bt of March 1819

AGED 21 YEARS." 41

* Buried 11 July. (Dav. Reg.) » Buried 14 Nov. (Dav. Reg.)

40 Buried S June. (Dav. Reg.) 4i Buried 5 March. (Dav. Reg.)

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On a head-stone : —

u To the memory of

Mary

wife of Isaac Wildash

of this Parish.

who died the 23 d of December

1822. aged 55 YEARS." 48

On a head-stone : —

To the memory of
Isaac Wildash
of this Parish
who died the 21 st of August
1836. Aged 75 Years." 4S

On a body-stone :

"William Wildash died June 15, 1833
aged 2 years and 10 months." 44

" Isaac Wildash died August the 13. 1833
aged 6 years and 5 months." 45

On a head-stone :-

" Sacred
to the memory of
Mary Anne Stanley

« 3 Buried 31 Dee , aged 54 (*fc> (Dav. Reg.) « Boned 27 Aug. (Dav. Reg.)
44 Buried 19 June. (Dav. Reg.) « Buried 17 Aug. (Dav. Reg.)

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wife of Isaac Wildash

WHO DIED OCTOBER 15 th 1857

aged 55 years." ^

(< Also Mary
daughter of the above

WHO DIED JULY 4 th 1859
AGED 19 YEARS." 47

The registers commence on the 6th of October 1549, 3rd Edw. VI,
and have been regularly continued down to the present time.

ITHIN the grounds of Davington Priory, towards the
south side, stands a monumental Cross, which some few
years since was raised from the bottom of Faversham
Creek. On the transverse bar, in front, is incised the
words "SBpatJjet QSUtmeCOOtt*" The back appears
also to have had another inscription, which is now destroyed. On
reference to page 68 {ante) it will be seen that in 23 Henry VIII, one
" Thomas Warnecote," as it is there written, paid to the owner of
Davington Priory the rent of a house " in which William Norton dwelt,
in West Street/' (Faversham.)

The shaft which now supports the Cross, is formed of portions of
various twisted columns, formerly from the ruins of Faversham Abbey.

«• Buried 21 Oct. (Dav. Reg.) 4T Buried 7 July. (Dav. Reg.)

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PERAMBULATION OF THE PARISH OF DAVINGTON,

KENT. 1

EGIN at a stone No. 1, in the road opposite to the
church. From thence to a post No. 2, at the angle of
a piece of glebe called the Roughet. From thence
round the said Roughet by the hedge to a post No.
3, in road opposite the said church-yard. From thence
round the road leading to Oare to No. 4, on a gate post at the angle
of a piece of land called West-brooks at the Vents. From thence
along the road through Oare Stray and Street, keeping said road to a
post No. 5, at the angle of Mr. Lawson's field called Noire ws, by the
stile and footway. From thence along Mr. Lawson's hedge to a post
No. 6, in Mr. Whitehead's pasture. From thence under the hedge in
said pasture to a stone No. 7, close by a gate leading into Mr. White-
head's broom-field. From thence along the hedge of Mr. Bennet's
cherry-orchard and through his yard to a stone No. 8, in the lane.
From thence turn to the east up the hedge about eight rods to a pqet
No. 9, in Mr. Tappenden's Green-lea. From thence across the said
Green-lea southward to a post No. 10, in the hedge. From thence
cross Mr. Tappenden's orchard to a stone No. 11, in the lane hedge
opposite to the cross road. From thence down the said cross road to

1 From a manuscript book, without date, but apparently in the handwriting of the latter
part of the 18th century, given by the late William Jeffreys, solicitor, Faversham, to the
author in 1(546.

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a post No. 12, at the angle of the Vents joining the moat-house yard.
From thence up the road leading to Bysing wood about seventeen
rods to a post No. 13, by a stile and footway leading to the moat-
house. From thence along the hedge between the moat-house orchard
and Sir M. Filmer's hop ground to a post No. 14, at the angle of the
said hop-garden. From thence turn to the southward along the
hedge to a post No. 15, near the angle of Bysing wood. From
thence through the wood along the swamp to a post No. 16.
From thence along the said swamp to a post No. 17, at the angle of
a hop-garden called Moll Days. From thence along the hedge be-
tween the said hop-garden and Bysing wood to a stone No. 18, at
the road. From thence cross the said road to a stone No. 19, on the
hill in the wood near a carrying way. From thence to the said hill,
south, through a part of the said wood to a stone No. 20, by the wood
edge joining Lady Twisden's Stone-denn field. From thence cross
the said Stone-denn to a stone No. 21, close by a gate and footway.
From thence, north-east, to a stone No. 22, about three rods from
angle of hedge. From thence turn to the north-west along Stone-
denn hedge and landway to a post of a gate No. 23, against Bysing
wood. From thence turn to the east along Bysing wood hedge,
twenty-five rods to a post No. 24. From thence, southward, cross
one enclosure into Knights-field to a stone on the hill No. 25. From
thence a little more to the south-ward to a post No. 26, at hedge near
the yew-tree. From thence across Lady Twisden's gravel pit field to
a stone No. 27, within about two rods of West-brook ditch. From
thence cross the brooks to a post No. 28, in Lady Twisden's Hill-
field. From thence along the said Hill-field near the pale fence to a
stone No. 29, in landway, adjoining the powder-mill gardens. From
thence to left of the storekeeper's house to a post No. 30, by the
high pale at the water. From thence, northward, to No. 31, at the
angle of garden opposite the old wall and powder mill. From thence
cross the land belonging to the Board of Ordnance to a post No. 32,
in the road. From thence cross to post No. 33, in the road leading to
Davington Church, and from thence round the said road to No. 1.

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LANDOWNERS IN THE PARISH OF ST. MARY
MAGDALENE, DAVINGTON.

|ROM the official return of the Commissioners for the
tithe adjustment.

l J May 22, 1844.

Cha* J. Lawson . .
S. John's Coll. Camb.
Tho' Hilton . . .
S r Edm. Filmer . .
Edw" 1 Crow . . .
Rob* Colegate and\

others
W m Hall . . .
John Hyde . .
Corp" of Faversham
Giles Hilton . .
Fred k WiIks . .

John Webb . .

Acres R. P.

92 5

6 7

46 1 1

11 1 23

3 3 4

December, 1861.

Acres R. P.

92 5

6 7

46 1 I

11 1 23

/

15 3 9 15 3 9

24 1 7

314 1 1

3 38

1 30
2 19

1 31

3 33

Sir J. Bridges . .
J. G. Shepherd and"!
W. Jeffreys J

Roads 10 1 3

Waste 25

Total 537 1 36

F. C. Hyde .

{William Maytom
Nath 1 Carey

Tho'. Willement

40
302

1

11

1 1

3 38
30

2 19
32

39

3 33

. . 10 1 3

. . 25

Total 537 1 36

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appendix X.

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS to the Font and Communion
Table presented to T. Willement, Esq., as a testimony of
the interest they feel in the restoration of Davington
Church, 1847."

£

*.

d.

£

S.

<L

William Jeffreys

2

2

Brought up .

20

14

Henry Shepherd

2

2

Lewis Crow . . .

1

1

A Curate ....

10

Edw. Crow . .

. 1

1

Edw. J. Hilton

2

2

W. Rigdeu . . .

3

3

Fred. F. Giraud

2

2

Mrs. Rigden

. 2

2

Geo. Murton . .

1

1

Richard Bathurst

1

1

Thos. Barnes & Friends 4

4

John Holmes .

. 1

1

R. G. Stone . . .

1

1

Jas. Walker . .

1

1

Wm. Hall . . .

6

Ch. J. Hilton .

10

A Clergyman of the

John Hyde . . .

6

neighbourhood .

10

A Friend . . . .

13

6

Carried up £20 14

Total £37 7 6

Expended. To Thos. Barnes and Sons, Faversham,

for the oak Table 19 19 6

To Mr. John Thomas, London, for the

stone Font 17 8

£37 7 6

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The oak Table which stands on six open pointed arches bears the
following inscription : — €i + Humbly offered to God and to this
Church of St. Mary Magdalene, by some dwellers nigh. Anno
Domini, mdcccxlvii."

The Font, which is of Caen stone, is circular : on the bowl is sculp-
tured in high relief the Cross, and the emblems of the four Evangelists.
Round the verge is the same inscription as on the Table.

The Communion plate, which consists of an embossed Alms Dish
of laten, a Paten and Chalice of silver, parcel gilt, and a Cruet of
deep coloured ruby glass, richly mounted in silver gilt, has on each
piece this inscription, " St. Mart Magdalene, Davington. Humbly
offered by Kathbrine Willement, March xxv. a.d. mdcccxlix."

In the tower of the Church are now three modern Bells, inscribed
"Thynke and Thanke."

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APPENDIX XI.

BRIGANDINE HEAD-PIECE, FOUND AT DAVINGTON PRIORY, KENT.

Now in the possession of Thomas Willement, F.S.A.

The perforated iron plates are drawn one-half original size.

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BRIGANDINE HEAD-PIECE, FOUND AT
DAVINGTON PRIORY IN 1856. See opposite page.

HIS cap was exhibited at the meeting of the Society of
Antiquaries of London on Thursday the 13th of March,
1856, and is thus mentioned in the Proceedings of that
Society in the third volume, p. 263 : —

" It is a head-piece formed of a series of small iron
plates over-lapping each other and quilted between two pieces of
canvas. The metal plates are square, with the angles taken off to
admit of the thread passing between and across them, and thus
render them secure and immoveable. Mr. Way terms it a ' Privy
Cap of Fence/ and considers it quite unique.

" The mode of its discovery was very singular. On making some
repairs to the roof of Davington Priory it was found lying on the top
of an old wall, composed of stone, flint, and rubble, and between two
wall-plates, (the one of oak, the other of fir,) which support the gutter-
plate between the gables. The wall, which is probably about the age
of Edward II., over it is 2 feet in thickness, and rises 20 feet from
the ground. The roof over it is of the time of Henry VIII.

" The accompanying sketch show the head-piece, and the position
in which it was found :—

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" A Gutter-plate between the Gables.
B Outside plate— Fir.
C Inside plate — Oak.

D West wall— Stone, flint, and rubble, 2 feet thick.
£ The Head-piece in the place where it was found."

It is thus noticed in the XlVth Vol. of the Archaeological Journal,
p. 245 :*—

"NOTICE OF A HEAD-PIECE OF BRIGANDINE ARMOUR,
FOUND AT DAVINGTON PRIORY, KENT.

"Towards the close of the XVth and throughout the XVIth
century, the inconvenience occasioned by the ponderous nature of
armour of plate naturally led to the adoption of various defences of
less rigid and cumbrous description. The frequent use at that period
of body-armour formed of mail or small plates of metal, quilted within
a garment of linen or other more costly tissue, has perhaps been
hitherto insufficiently noticed. From the perishable nature of the
material we can rarely expect to meet with original examples of such

» 8vo. Lond. 1857.

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armour, even under circumstances most favourable to their preserva-
tion ; whilst on the other hand the scanty evidence to be gained from
contemporary writers, or from the concise description in an inventory
or a bequest, may scarce suffice to define the precise distinction
between the brigandine and the ' noble jazeran,' — the jacket of mail,
the privy coat offence, and the plated doublet.

" A remarkable example of armour of plates of iron stitched be-
tween folds of linen, forming a ' secret/ or concealed protection for
the head, has recently been brought before the Institute by Mr.
Willement Body-armour of precisely similar workmanship exists in
various collections, but no specimen has hitherto been noticed, destined
to supply the place of the rigid and ponderous head-piece usually
worn. The circumstances connected with the discovery are no less
singular than the remarkable preservation of the relic. ' It was found
(Mr. Willement states) towards the close of February, 1856, at Dav-
ington Priory, Kent, on the top of a wall, 2 feet in thickness and
about 20 feet from the ground, the wall being composed of irregular
stones, flint, and rubble, probably of the time of Edward II. The
cap was not imbedded in the masonry, but was found lying loose and
dry, between two wall-plates which extended through the greater
part of the west front; the roof which they carried not being older
than the time of Henry VIII. (see woodcut). It is certainly a head-
covering, perhaps too small for a male adult, and how could such an
article find its way amongst the Benedictine nuns ? Was it used in
any way as a penitential infliction?'

" Although of rather diminutive proportions, as observed by Mr.
Willement, — the height of the cap being 4£ inches; the brim l£;
the diameter of the opening for the head, about 6 inches, — yet this
curious object is undoubtedly a ' privy cap of fence/ armour for the
head. We may safely assign its date to the XVIth century, and
regard it as destined to be worn within the low-crowned, narrow-
brimmed hat, in vogue in the reigns of Henry VIII. and Elizabeth.
The form occurs frequently in the spirited woodcuts of Jost Amman,
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perilous emergencies of actual warfare ; as a protection in a fray or
skirmish, in travelling or in nightly adventure, it may have been
found an effectual expedient. It is formed, as shown in the accom-
panying representation (p. 128), of several rows of small octagonal plates
of iron, overlapping each other: the brim being composed of a single
row of plates of rather larger size than those used in other parts of
the cap. These plates are laid between stout canvas, and quilted
together, so to speak, by fine twine stitched around the plates, and
through the oilet-holes in the centre of each of them. The ' privy
cap/ thus ingeniously compacted, possessed considerable flexibility;
and when removed from the hat it might be folded up in small com-
pass, and carried about the person as a precaution against any sudden
emergency, with almost as much facility as the skeleton cap of fence
in Mr. W. J. Bernhard Smith's collection, figured in this Journal,
(Archaeological Journal,) vol. vii. p. 229, where notices of other ex-
amples may be found.

" No allusion to the secrette formed of plates, such as the curious
specimen before us, appears to have been found in the writers or in-
ventories of the period. These caps were sometimes formed with
mail, and with horn, the latter being used probably in like manner as
the whalebone, baleine, at an earlier period. In the Inventory of
effects of Sir John Fastolf, who died in 1459, occur 'xxiiij. cappes
stuffy d with home and sum withe mayle. Item, j. Jakke of blakke
lynen clothe stuffy d with mayle. Item, vj. Jakkes stuflyd with
borne. 9 (Archaeologia, vol. xxi. p. 270.) We find in Palsgrave's
' Eclaircissement de la Langue Francoyse,' 1630, — ' Cappe of fence,
segrette de maille* Florio, in his Italian Dictionary, renders ' Secreta,
a thin Steele cap or close skull worne under a hat.' Sir John Smithe,
in his ' Instructions, Observations and Orders Mylitarie, &c, composed
1591/ speaks of the imperfect equipment of light horsemen, ' armed
with red or pied cappes and Steele sculles within them;' and he re-
commends that the mounted archers should use ' deepe Steele sculles
in very narrow brimd hattes, well stuffed for the easines of their
heades,' and either jacks of mail, ' or else light and easie brigandines,

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or at least ilet-holed doublets, verie easie and well fitted to their
bodies ; their sleeves chained within with maile, or else with certen
narrow stripes of serecloth betwixt the lining and outside of their
sleeves for the easines of their armes.'*

" Although no other example of the cap quilted with iron plates has
hitherto occurred, several brigandine doublets, of precisely similar
construction to that of the secrette in Mr. Willement's possession,
have been preserved. Examples may be seen in the Tower Armory,
part of the old Tudor stores, as I am informed by Mr. Hewitt, and
one of these has been figured in Grose's ' Ancient Armour/ pi. xxvi.
There is one in the Armory at Goodrich Court, which once belonged
to a Kentish bowman, and is described by the late Sir S. Meyrick as
a Brigandine Jacket. It is figured by Skelton, vol. i. pi. 34. In
the museum formed in 1856, during the Meeting of the Institute in
Edinburgh, another was produced by Mr. W. B. Johnstone, Treasurer
of the Royal Scottish Academy. In this last, the form and dimen-
sions of the oilet-holed iron plates, the mode in which they are quilted
within the canvas by external cords in straight and diagonal lines,
passing through those perforations, and the general aspect of the
workmanship so closely resemble those of the head-piece from Dav-
ington, that we might suppose both to have been produced by the
same artificer. 3 On the other hand, the fashion of the doublet
enables us to ascertain the date of both these defences. The peculiar
' peasecod bellied ' form, as it is designated by Bulwer, a fashion first
introduced in the breast-plate of armour in the reign of Edward VI,
may suffice to fix the age as the later half of the XVIth century.
Sir S. Meyrick assigned a date as late as 1590 to the doublet in his
collection. Such brigandine jackets, he observes, were in the reign of
Elizabeth appropriated to the bowmen. It is obvious that their com-

9 Instruction* &c. pp. 198, 204.

3 It has been suggested, with much probability, that the term " ilet-holed doublets," used
by Sir John Smithe, pp. 185, 204, may have been assigned to brigandine jackets of this
description.

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parative flexibility rendered them well suited for that purpose ; and Sut-
cliffe, who produced his 'Practice of Armes' in 1593, observes, that
some now-a-days little esteem the bow, 'yet, if our archers were
armed with plated jackes as in time past, neither shotte could abide
them in even ground, nor pikes without shotte.' 5

"The precise distinction between various defences used as sub-
stitutes for the more ponderous armour of plate is often obscure, and
I hope on some future occasion to give a more extended notice of
their peculiarities. We trust that Mr. Hewitt will be enabled to com-
plete his useful treatise on ' Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe.'
He will doubtless throw as much light on the difficulties which occur
in our investigations of the armour of the XVIth century, as he has
upon that of the earlier periods.

"Alb: Way."

, ut supra, p. 163. At p. 23, likewise he mentions "jackets of male and plated
doublets ;" and. p. 188, he recommends that some light troops should be armed "onelie with
light targets and plated doublets sufficient to bears the thrust of a sword."

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appendix xil

PUBLISHED WORKS CONTAINING REFERENCES TO
THE PRIORY OF DAVINGTON.

Date.

1576. William Lambard. " Perambulation of Kent" 4to., London.

P. 256.
1671. Tho. Southouse. * " Monasticon Favershamiense." 12mo.,

London. P. 146.
1719. John Harris. "The History of Kent." Folio, London. P. 98.
1727. John Lewis. "History and Antiquities of Faversham, Ax."

4to. P. 77.
1771. Francis Grose. " Antiquities of England and Wales." 4 to.,

London. Vol. III., p. 31.
1774. Edw. Jacob. " History of the Town and Port of Faversham."

8vo., London. P. 112.
1782. Edw. Hasted. "The History and Topographical Survey of

the County of Kent." Folio, Canterbury. Vol. II., p. 726.
1793. (Zach. Cozens.) "Tour through Thanet and parts of East

Kent." 4to., London. P. 341.
1801 — 15. E. W. Brayley. "Topogr. Hist, and descriptive delinea-
tions of the County of Kent." 8vo., London. Vol. VIL,

VIII.
1808. Storer and Greig. " Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet."

12mo., London. Vol. II.

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1810. F. W. L. Stockdale. « Etchings of Antiquities in the County

of Kent." 4to., London.
1817-18. William Deeble. " Isle of Thanet and the Cinque Ports."

12mo., London. Vol. II.
1819. J. N. Brewer. " Walks through Kent." 12mo. London.

1822. " Excursions in the County of Kent." 12mo.,

London.

1823. Dugdale. " Monasticon." Folio, London. Vol. IV., p. 288.
1 848. J. L. Petit. " Remarks on Architectural Composition." Folio,

Oxford. Plate VI.
1852. A. Hussey. " Churches of Kent." 8vo., London. P. 68.
1852. (Anon.) " Account of Davington Priory." 8vo., Faversham.
1858. (J.Murray.) « Handbook of Kent." 12mo., London. P. 70.

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FROM THE CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN TAKEN IN
1851. Vol, I. p. 32.

AVINGTON PARISH, Hundred of Faversham, Lathe
of Scray, County of Kent.

Area in Statute Acres, 637.

Houses in 1841. In 1851.

26

Inhabited, 26
Uninhabited, 3
Building,

Persons in 1801. 1811. 1821. 1831. 1841. 1851.

Males
Females

The Returns for 1861 have not yet been published ; but in " The
Returns for the Twenty-five Parishes comprising the Faversham
Union," delivered to those several parishes preparatory to the printing
of the complete work, the numbers stand thus : —

146

LI 68

151

157

143 | 147

79
67

86
82

67
84

86
71

78
65

77
70

Parish

Males.

Females.

Total.

Davington

87

62

149

Pop. in 1851.
147

Incr.

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In 1856 a Sunday School was commenced at Davington Priory,
since which date 96 scholars have been admitted.

The number of scholars at the present time is 30 boys and 14 girls ;
total 44.

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RONTISPIECE— Exterior of the East end of the Church,
as it remained in 1855.
No. I. to face p. 18. The Stall-plate of Sir Thomas

Cheney, K.G.
No P. — p. 27. Exterior of the great Doorway at the
West end of the Church.
No. P. — p. 28. West side of the partition wall between the Monastic

and the Parochial Churches.
No. II. — p. 30. Plans of the Priory Churches of Marrick and Dav-

ington.
No. III. — p. 34. The Lavatory, and the Entrance to the Refectory

from the Cloister.
No. IV. — p. 37. General view of the West front of the Church and

Priory.
No. V. — p. 95. A Benedictine Nun of Davington Priory.
No. VI. — p. 128. An Iron Head-covering, found at the Priory in
1856.

VIGNETTES.

P. 42. An Ornamental Group.

P. 103. Stone Coffins, &c, within the Priory Church.

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1 40 ILLUSTRATIONS .

WOODCUTS OF THE ARMORIAL BEARINGS OF

Benedictine Order, pp. 7, 14.

Bode, John, p. 23.

Bradborne, John, p. 22.

Cheney, Sir Thomas, pp. 16, 17, 35.

Cheney, Henry, Lord, p. 20.

Combe, Isabella de, p. 57.

Davington Priory, pp. 13, 14, 18.

Edward I. King, p. 9.

Edward HI. King, p. 10

Edwards, John, p. 22.

Henry III. King, p. 8.

Henry VIII. King, pp. 12, 15, 35.

Newenham, Fulke de, pp. 7, 14.

Richard II. King, p. 10.

Sherwin, John, p. 26.

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MPTHILL, 101,
Ash, 65, 67, 77, 80.
Ashford, 45, 50.

Beacon Hill, 1, 40.
Beaconsfield, 2.
Bermondsey, 101.
Bishton, 102.
Blacks, 69.

Blandford parva, 101.
Blean, the, 40.
Bourdfeld, 64, 65.
Braborne, 57.
Brentford, 102.
Broadstairs, 82.
Brodfelde, 77, 78.
Brooke, 91.
Brookes forstall, 98.
Buckland, 65.
Budley, East, 101.
Burdefeld, 10, 67.
Butts-marsh, 65.
Bysing-wood, 40, 124, quater.

Caistor, 102.
Cambridge, 93.
Canterbury, 1, 7, 8, 81, 43.
Cattle, prices of, 16.
Cawston, 102.
Chalk dale, 72.
Channel-row, 102.
Chapleyns, 70.

Chilham, 36, 44.
Chilton, 101.
Chiselhurst, 46.
ChistJet, 47.
Cinque Ports, 19.
Clare Hall, arms of, 45.
Cliff-marsh, 2.
Cluny, 14.
Cobham, 80.
Collumpton, 102.
Coquet Down, 40.
Corstling, 64.
Corte fozon, 72.
Cottenham, 101.
Courbourne, 91.
Croftnes, 70.
Curacies, perpetual, 4

Dache-marsh, 77.
Daefa-tun, 2.
Daefinga-tun, 2.
Danes, the, 70.
Danitun, 1.
Danitune, 1.
Davington, 65, 77, 91.

Arms of Priory, 13, 14, 27.

Brasses, 100, 101.

Bells, 42.

Census of, 137.

Church inscriptions, 103.

Churchyard ditto, 112.

Cloister, 37.

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INDEX OF PLACES.

Davington Communion-Table, 126,
127.

Communion Plate, 127.

Court, 43.

East-end, 27, 31.

Font, 126, 127.

Hall, 36, 37.

Hope, 65.

Illustrations of, 139, 140.

Iron Cap, 128.

Knight's-field, 53.

Land, prices of, 16.

Landowners, 125.

Lavatory, 34.

* Manor, 3, 6, 67.

Marsh, 65, 66.

Ministers, 95.

Parish, 8, 5.

Park, 52.

Partition of Church, 28.

Perambulation, 123.

Place, 30, 67.

Prioresses, 94.

Priory, 75.

Refectory, 34.

Registers, 97.

Steel Cap, 39.

Sunday School, 138.

West Door, 27.

Front, 37.

Dereham, East, 101.
Dodington, 65.
Domesday Book, 5.
Dover, 19, 101.
Draytons-forstall, 93.
Durdeville, 77, 80.
Durobrivis, 1.
Durobrivum, 1
Durolevum, 1.
Dya, 63.

Eastling, 65, 80.
Ensham, 102.
Espringe, 77.

Estfelde, 71, 72.
Estwood, 71.

Faversham, 3, 8, 11, W», 16, 23, 25,
32, 33, 34, 40, 58, 64, 65, 68, 77,
80, 85, 86, 92, 93, 95, 96, 101, 125.

Ffynche Hill, 65, 68.

Fishbourne, 12, 76, 77, 79, 80.

Fryth,71.

Gabbins Cross, 72.
Graine Island, 63.
Graveney, 2.
Greenstreete, 90.
Gye croft, 70.

Hales croft, Jack, 90.

Ham, a Saxon-word, 2.

Hamfeld, 67.

Hamworth, 102.

Harbledown, 65, 77, 80.

Harlington, 101.

Harty, Isle of, 10, 11, 65, 72, 74, 77,

80.
Haxby, 102.
Herball downe, 77, 80.
Heme, 34.
Herspere, 64.
Herters, 64, bis.
Heyham, 64.
Hill field, 124.
Hocdale, 61.
Homefelde, 71.
Humphrey's Cross, 93.

Jack Hales croft, 90.
Judde Hill, 1.

Eennaways, 91.
Keyborne-marsh, 65, 77.
Enights'-field, 124.

Lamberkms, 89.
Croft, 93.

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Longcroft, 72.

Luddenham, 11, 65, 77, 95, to, 111.

Lyme Regis, 30.

Lynstead, 77, 80.

Maison Dieu, 93.
Marrick,30.
Mayfield, 71.
Melfeld, 65.
Menshion-field (nether), 65.

(upper), 65.

Meopham,59.
Milan, 31.
Minster, 20, 66.

in Shepey, 77, 80.

Moll Days, 124.

Monketon, 12, 65, hi*. 67, 70, 71, 76,

77, 78, 79, 80.
Motte, the, 65.
Mouzecote, 64, 65.
Mychyndane, 74.
Mynchin Croft, 68.
Lane, 65.

Naples, 31.

NetUestead, 20.

Newenham, 10, 11, 12, 14, 64, 65,

68, 69, 77, bis, 80.
Newmarket, 102.
Nicholas-forstall, 93.
Norman Point, 3.
Norrews, 123.
North Dane, 98.
Northmen Point, 3.
Northampton, 101.
Norton, 11, 64, 65, 77, 80, 94.
Norwich, 30, 31.

Oare, 3, 48, 65, 67, 95.

Stray, 123.

Orsett-marsh, 65.

Ospringe, 11, 63, 64, 68, 69, 74, 77,

80, 90, 91, 92, 93.
Oswestry, 101.

Ottryngden, 77, 78, 79.
Overperstone, 77, 80.

Painter's-field, 65.
Pallsberry, 71, bis.
Pattingham, 101.
Perugia, 31.
Portsmouth, 102.
Potalls land, 90.
Presteign, 102.
Preston, 11, 95.
Preston Candover, 102.
Pryvets, 71.
Pycots Acre, 71.

Queenborough, 19.

Reculyer, 32, 34.
Rickmansworth, 101.
Rochester, 1,19,49.
Rome, 31.
Rommenhale, 63.
Roughet, 123.

St. Albans, 30, 102.

St Cross, 41.

St Katherines, 102.

St. Peter's, Thanet, 65, 68.

St Thomas, 102.

Salisbury, 18, 19.

Saltmarshe, 66.

Sandwich, 49, 63, 65, 77, 80.

Sarum, New, 4.

Scray, lath of , 1.

Sea-salter, 2.

Selling, 64, 65, 67.

Sellinge, 64, 77,80.

Shepey, 3,20,65.

Sherwinhope, 1.

Shorne, 24.

Shurland, 36.

Sittingbourne, 77, 80.

Smarden, 75.

Snygland,71,72.

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INDEX OF PLACES.

Stafford, 101.
Stanger, 65, 77, hi*.
Stanstede, 65, 73, 80.
Stebills, 71.
Stedfeld, 72.
Sterishes, 90.
Stoke, 102.
Stone, 11.

Stonemouth, 64, 65, 68.
Subiaco, 31.
Surrenden, 57.
Swale, the, 3.
Swalward, 71. \
Syndane, 70.

Tangreton, 2.
Tankerton, 2.
Tenham, 64, 65.
Thanet, Isle of, 77, 80.
Thornetons, 72.
Throwley, 65.
Topsham, 101.
Tuddington, 19,20, 21,36.
Tan, a Saxon word, 2.
Tunstal, 61.
Tylfelde, 71.
Tjrlney, 71.

Vents, the, 123.

Vicarages, 4.

Wade, 64.
Wakelond, 64.
Walton. 101.
Warsop, 102.
Watling-street, 1.
Wayesland, 72.
Wem, 101.
Werdenne, 64.
Werspiuton, 64.
Westbroc, 63, bis.
West-brooks, 123, 124.
West-brook ditch, 124.
West Grinstead, 46.
West-street, Fayersham, 68.
Whitehill, 1, 90, 93.
Whitstaple, 2.
Whittenfolde, 70.
Whitwods, 69.
Wichellng, 16.
Winchelsea, 63.
Winchester, 41.
Windsor, 18, 102.
Wiwarlet, 1.
Wrens, 65.
Wydmer, 71.
Wylde, 71.
Wymondham, 30.
Wynfeld, 72, bis.

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|BBL£, John, 69.

Abergavenny, 19, 48.

Ager, Harry, 72.

Thomas, 72.

Albred, John, 67.
Albury, Edward, 74.
Aldington, Stephen de, 59.
Allen, John, 89, bis.

Robert, 89, bis.

Stephen, 89, quater.

Ambrose, John, 73, 74.
Andrew, Hamon, 72.
Apuldrefield, Henry de, 50, 58, 60.

Joan de, 58.

John de, 58.

Lucy de, 68.

Sybilla de, 58.

Thomas de, 60.

William de, 58, 59.

Asceles, 45.
Ashbey, John, qtdnq.

Susan, ter.

At-Danes, Godlyn, 72.
At-Downes, Agnes, 70.
At-Haule, Alice, 59.

Robert, 70, 72.

Athol, 43, 44, 45.
At-Styles, Thomas, 69.
Ancher, John, 77, 78, bis.
Audle, Elizabeth, 75, 94.

Back, BarthoL 85.
Badfield, John, 69.

Baker, John, 86, bis.

Mary, 86.

Peter, 70.

Susan, 86.

Thomas, 86, bis.

William, 89, ter.

Bargars, 89.

Barker, Christopher, 80.
Barling, John, 84.
Barnes, Thomas, 126.
Baron, Arms of, 25.
Barrows, John, 71.
Bartlett, widow, 86, ter.

William, 86, quater.

Bathurst, Richard, 126.
Battle, Arms of, 25.
Bax, John, 90, bis.

Susan, 90, bis.

Beaching, John, 115.
Beal, Mary, 113.

Robert, 113.

Beauchamp, John, 17.
Beaumont, Arms of, 45.

Henry, 45.

Katharine, 45.

Beckesley, Simon de, 61.
Benedictines, 14.

Arms of, 14.

Nuns, 7.

Order of, 7.

Benge, 72.
Bennet, John, 118.
Mary, 86, bis.

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INDEX OF PERSONS.

Bennet, Peter, 86.

Sarah, 118.

Bennett, 38, 123.

Bartholomew 109, fer. 118.

Diana Hozier, 110, bis.

John, 109.

Mary, 109, to, 117.

Thomas, 25, 84, 98, 109.

William, 117.

jun. 118.

Berfrieston, Anniscai, 58.
Besevyle, Gervase de, 63.
Best, Thomas, 67.
Bever, Agnes, 97.
Binney, Robert, 61.
Birt, John, 96.
Blank, 93.
Blunt, J. H. T., 96.
Bode, Arms of, 23, 24.

Anne, 83, 106.

Edward, 107.

Elizabeth, 23, 107.

John, 23, bit, 83, 105, Hi, 106,

bis.

Margaret, 83, 107.

Mary, 24, 83, 85.

Thomas, 23.

William, 28.

Borgin, John, 70.
Borne, Henry, 68, 70, 74.
Borstall, Margaret, 94.
Bough ton, Alice de, 61.
Bourne, Amy, 92.

Cheyney, 92, ter.

William, 60.

Boyland, Richard de, 9, 64.
Boys, Edward, 23, 106.

Mary, 23, 24.

Boyton, Juliana de, 58.
Bradborne, Arms of, 22.

John, 21.

Bradock, 73, 74.
Bramah, J. West, 96.
Braylls, William, 73, 74.

Bredgar, Robert de, 61.
Bridge, Thomas, 92, bis.
Bridges, Sir J., 125.
Bristow, Mary Anne, 116.

William, 116.

Brooke, Dorothy, 48.

Frances, 48.

William, 48.

Broughton, Arms of, 20.

Anne, 19, 20.

John, 19, 20.

Broxhall, Henry, 73, bis.
Bruar, John, 65.
Buckland, Curate of, 65.
Burnham, John, 92.

William, 92, bis.

Butt, Brooke, 93.
Bury, M., 66.

Camoys, John, 60.
Campana, Henry de, 59.

John de, 59, 60.

Pagan de, 8.

Robert de, 58.

Sarah de, 59, 61.

Canterbury, John, archb., 78.

Robert, archb., 59.

Simon, archb., 59.

Stephen, archb., 60.

Capell, Henry, 60.

Solomon, 61.

Carbey, Elizabeth, 87.

James, 87, 88, ter.

John, 87, bis, 88, quater.

Prudence, 87, bis, 88, quater.

Cardon, Alexander, 65, 66.
Qarey, Nathaniel, 125.
Carter, John, 89, ter.
Champagne, John de, 10.

Margaret de, 10.

Champey, Margaret de, 61.
Cheney, Arms of, 15, 17, 18, 20, 35.

Badge of, 19, 80.

Stallplate of, 18.

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Cheney, Baron, 16, 17.

Henry, 19, 20.

John, 17.

Thomas, 15, 36, 75, 79.

Chiche, Thomas, 11.
Chilham, Isabella de, 43, 59.

Richard de, 44.

Chilton, Alice de, 59.

John de, 70.

Chrispe, William, 57.
Clyderowe, Elizabeth, 61.
Clynche, John, 71.
Clynton, Elizabeth, 57.

Stephen, 66, 73.

Thomas, 66.

Widow, 73, 74.

William, 60, 65.

Cobham, Lord, 48.
Cocas, William, 63.
Colegate, Edward, 116.

Elizabeth, 114, to.

George, 116, to.

John, 113,114, 115.

Mary, 114, to, 116.

Mary Anne, 114, 116.

Robert, 113, 114, to, 125.

Sarah, 113, 114, to.

William, 114, quater, 115, 116.

Comyn, Arms of, 44.

Joane, 44.

John, 44.

Coombe, 57.

— Arms of, 57.
Coote, Katharine, 111, to.
Copinger, Arms of, 48.

— Agnes, 48.

Francis, 48. *

Henry, 48, to.

Thomas, 48, to.

Copinger, William, 48.
Cosenton, Joan de, 61.
■ Stephen de, 62.

Cosgrave, Henry, 96, 112, 120.
Crimble, George, 23.

Crimble, Grace, 23.
Crispe, Frances, 19.

Nicholas, 19.

Crow, Edward, 125, 126.

Lewis, 126.

Collen, Mark, 87, quater.

Mary, 87.

Cumbe, Christiana de, 57.

Isabella de, 57.

Philip, 60.

Curling, Alfred, 119.

Clara Elizabeth, 119.

Henrietta {Sophia, 119.

William Monk, 119.

Daef,2.
Daefa, 2.
Daefingas, the, 2.
Daking, John, 60.
Danby, Charles, 73.

Richard, 74.

Davington, Alice de, 58.

Joane, Prioress, 78, 79.

Majores de, 58.

Richard de, 58.

Day, Widow, 91, to.

William, 91, to.

Deane, John, 79.
Delamere, Arms of, 25.
Delmar, 70.
Dewy, Josiah, 91, to.
Digge, Roger, 11.
Diz, Elizabeth, 117.

Joshua, 96, 117.

Robert, 117.

Dodington, Thomas, 65.
Dovor, Arms of, 43.

Fulke de, 44.

Isabella de, 48.

Rohesia de, 44.

Richard, de, 48.

Drayton, 93.

Robert, 69.

Drylonde, 71.

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INDEX OF PERSONS.

Drylonde, Arms of, 47.

Agnes de, 59.

Constance, 46.

James, 46.

Dungate, Alice, 70.
Dunstall, Margaret de, 61.
Dynmarke, Matilda, 75, 94.

Eason, William, 118.
Eaton, James, 69.
Ecclesia, Hamon de, 63.

William de, 63.

Stephen de, 63.

Edward the Confessor, 6.

L, King, 6, 9, 81.

IIL, King, 10, 14.

Edwards, Arms of, 9, 22, 23.

Anne, 23, 104.

John, 22, 38, 104, 105, 106.

Elizabeth, Queen, 20, 21.
Ertheslag, Thomas, 63.
Esthall, Joan de, 62.
Eaton, James, 68.
Estrey, Henry de, 8.
Everode, Stephen, 58, 59, 62.
Eynesforde, Beatrice de, 59.
William de, 60.

Fagg, Edmund, 33.
Faunty, 25.
Ferrers, Arms of, 45.

Elizabeth, 45.

Henry, 45.

Fitz-Hamon, Matthew, 63.
Fitz-Hyroney, Ernulph, 63.
Fitz-Richard, Guncelin, 63.
Fitz-Williams, Martin, 63.
Fitz-Wulvene, William, 63.
Fox, John, 72.
Freeman, 48.
Frith, Edward, 98.
Frogenhall, Elizabeth, 60.

Joan, 60.

John, 60.

Frowyk, Fridwith, 19.

Thomas, 19.

Fylks, Henry, 65, 67.
Fylmer, 65, 124.

Edmund, 57.

Edward, 125.

• John, 57.

Fynch, Nicholas, 67, 70, 71.

Gadsby, Mary, 86, bi$.

Edward, 86, W*.

Gardner, Edward, 115.

Elizabeth, 115.

Gilbert, Humphry, 20.
Gilles, Anne, 22.

Avery, 22.

Francis, 22.

Joan, 22.

Robert, 22.

Gillow, Margaret, 87, hi*.

Mary, 87, quater.

John, 87.

Giraud, Frederick F., 95, 126.
Girringes, Stephen de, 63.
Glover, Arms of, 49.

Joane, 49.

Robert, 49.

Thomas, 49.

Godlyn, 7.

Godwin, Heighney, 67.

Godwinstone, Elizabeth, 61 .

John, 60, 61.

Goleshaule, Peter de, 58.
Goodnestone, 95.
Goshaule, Elizabeth de, 61.

Joan de, 60.

-1— Matilda de, 61.

Peter de, 58.

Sarah de, 59, 60.

Graveneye, William de, 58.
Greane, Constance, 46.
Greenstreete, 93.

John, 90, bis.

Peter, 65, 90, quinq.

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Greenstreete, Thomas, 72.
Grene, John, 46, 47.
Griffith, Katharine, 111, bis.

Mary, 111.

Thomas, 111.

Gunter, Eleanor, 47.
John, 47.

Hale, Ann, 37, bis.

Elizabeth, 86, bis, 87, bis.

George, 87, bis.

Henry, 87, 88, bis.

James, 86, 87, sept, 88, ter.

Prudence, 88.

Thomas, 86, quater, 87, quater,

88, guinq.
Hales, 98.

Halke, Richard, 95, 98.
Hall, John, 87, bis, 88, ter.

William, 125, 126.

Hallet, Arms of, 51.
Halsham, Arms of, 46.

Hugh, 46, bis.

John, 46, bis.

Isabella, 46.

Philippa, 46.

Halstede, Agnes, 58.
Hamme, Godeleva de, 58.

Peter de, 60.

Hampton, John, 68.
Harbledown, Prior of, 65, 67.
Harrison, Anne, 107, 108.

Elizabeth, 107.

Robert, 95, 97, 107, 108.

Hart, William, 93.
Harte, William, 65, 68.
Harty, Curate of, 74.
Hawker, Gibbon, 89.
Hawkins, John, 94.
Hawler, Thomas, 69.
Hayward, Robert, 74.
Henman, Widow, 91.
Henry III., King, Arms of, 8, 9.
VH., King, 17.

Henry, VIIL King, 12, 15, 75.

King, Arms of, 12, 13, 15, 35.

Heymans, Henry, 25.

Mary, 23.

Stephen, 65.

Heyward, Thomas, 74.
Hicley, Ann, 90.

Robert, 89, 90, quater.

Thomas, 90, bis.

Hilton, Charles J., 126.

Edward J., 126.

Giles, 125, bis.

Hodges, Thomas Law, 51, bis.
Hodye, 70.
Holmes, John, 126.
Horncastel, 70.
Home, Matthew, 70.

Robert, 23.

William, 68.

Horneclyre, Lucia de, 63.
Howting, John, 69.

William, 70.

Hugessen, John, 89, bis.
Humersham, John, 92, bis.

William, 92.

Hutt, Dorothy, 92, bis.
Hyde, John, 51, 125, 126.

F. C, 52, 125.

Hykmote, William, 71.

Jefferys, William, 26, 125, 126.
Jermyn, Agnes, 48.

Thomas, 48.

John, King, 5, 44.
Islynde, Ralph de, 59.

Kempe, Katharine, 19.

Thomas, 19.

Kennett, John, 58.
Kenulf, King, 2.
Kilwarby, Robert, 59.
Knell, Edmund de, 61.
Knights, 93.
Knowler, John, 91, ter.

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INDEX OF PERSONS.

Knowler, jun., 91.
Thomas, 91, bis.

Langton, Stephen, 60.
Lasheford, Katherine, 105.
Lawson, 123.

Charles James, 125.

Lees, Thomas, 95.
Le-Wred, Robert, 65.
Lindesey, Alice, 94.
Longley, William, 117.

William Hoy, 116.

Lorrymore, Edward, 85, 86.

Nicholas, 85.

Loryman, James, 93, ter.
Lovinge, Nicholas, 60.
Lyshford, Edmund, 105.
Katharine, 105.

Mackaree, Abraham, 88, bis.
Maleherbe, Alice, 61.
Manbye, Lawrence, 69.
Mantham, Arms of, 46.
Mantle, Arms of, 25.
Marsh, 6. Pierce, 84.
Marshall, 66.
Marsham, Arms of, 50.

John, 50.

Margaret, 50.

Matthews, 70.
Maycote, 68.

Richard, 70.

Mayney, John, 75.
Maytom, William, 125.
Maytott, William, 93.
Mears, Katharine, 108.

Leonard, 108.

Mary, 108.

Meopham, Simon de, 59.
Miles, Richard, 58.
Mill, Ann, 48.

John, 48, 93.

Milles, Anne, 48, 49.
Joane, 49.

Milles, Richard, 49.

Thomas, 49, 52.

Mills, Arms of, 48.

Ann, 48, bis.

James, 48.

Richards, 95.

Thomas, 48, bis.

William, 48.

Mingay, Mary, 89, bis.

Robert, 89.

Monde, Thomas, 58.
Monk, Elizabeth, 119.

John, 118.

William, 119, bis.

Monk, Isoida de, 59.
Monyngs, 94.
Moonyngs, Sybilla, 75, 76.
Morgesson, Widow, 93.
Morrhaunte, Joan, 60.

Thomas, 60.

Morton, John, 78.
Mortuo Marie, Hugh de, 61.
Moswell, Julia de, 58.
Mote, 74.

Stephen, 67.

Motte, John, 65.
Moune, Thomas, 58.
Munroe, Hector, 110.
Murton, George, 126.
Musters, Anne, 50.
Myll, Elizabeth, 48.

John, 48.

William, 48.

Napleton, Thomas, 93.
Naylor, George, 96.
Nevil, Dorothy, 48.

George, 19, 48.

Margaret, 19.

Newenham, Edwin de, 8.

Fulcode, 7,11,59.

John de, 8.

Juliana de, 8, 64.

Solomon de, 8.

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Norden, John, 61.
Northoo, Isabella, 94.
Norton, Curate of, 65.

Parson of, 67.

William, 68, 122.

Norwood, Sarah, 60.
Nones, Maxim. 96.

Oare, curate of, 65.

parson of, 65.

Ocholte, Matilda, 58.
Okingfold, Thomas, 65, 72.
Owen, 58.

Packman, William, 67,
Page, Lieut., 33.
Parker, Henry, 24.
Pashley, Edmund de, 60.

Margaret de, 60.

Thomas de, 60.

Pays, John, 11.
Pedege, Robert, 69.
Percy, Arms of, 46.

Isabella, 46.

Ralph, 46.

Perrot, Anne, 19.

John, 19.

Peterson, Agnes, 97.

William, 97.

Peyferer, William, 61.
Peykelin, Hamo, 63.
Plaxton, Robert, HI.
Plummer, Thomas, 70.
Polhill, Anne, 49.
Ponte, Walter de, 63.
Pordage, 91.

Francis, 90, bis, 93.

Powlder, John, 59.
Prioress Joan, 77.
Pryor, Thomas, 74.
Fuldrefelde, Henry de, 60.
Puller, Dorothy, 22.
Pye, Thomas, 65.

Raley, Richard de, 58.

Reygate, J. de, 64.

Richard II. King, Arms of, 10.

Richmond, 17.

Herald, 80.

Rigden, William, 126.
Righley, Matilda, 61.

John, 61.

Rivers, John, 61.
Robinson, John, 93, bis.
Rochesley, Richard de, 59.
Rogers, John, 71.
Rokell, Lorade, 51.
Rommall, Celestia de, 61.
Rosselyne, Thomas, 60.
Rouling, Alice de, 57, 61.

Gilbert de, 79.

Henry de, 62.

Ryghley, Matilda, 61.
John, 61.

S. Benedict, 75.

S. John's College, Cambridge, 125.

S. Lawrence, Isabella, 62.

Thomas, 61.

S. Leger, Ralph de, 60.
S. Nicholas, Elizabeth, 59.
Sandford, Arms of, 25.

Beatrice de, 59.

John de, 59.

Sayer, H. J., 25.
Scott, 66.
Sede, John, 68.
Sellinger, William, 58.
Senteleger, Ralph de, 60.
Sharsted, Robert, 91, bis.
Shepherd, J. 6., 26, 84, 125.

Henry, 126.

Sherwin, 33, 38.

Arms of, 25.

John, 24, bis, 84, 89, bis, 95,

112.

Martha, 89.

William, 24, bis, 25, 84, bis, 89.

Sherington, Arms of, 25.

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Shottisbroke, 20.

Arms of, 18, 26, 80, bis.

Crest of, 80.

John, 17.

Robert, 80.

Shurland, 20.

Arms of, 18, 20.

Silver, Daniel, 92, bis.
Skott, Batholomew, 74.
Smith, Frances, 92.

Thomas, 92, bis.

Snoade, Isabella de, 61.
Sorender, Loreta, 94.
Southsand, Robert, 67.
SpygornelL, Elizabeth, 58.

Ralph, 57.

Stanley, Mary Anne, 121.
Stone, R. G., 126.
Stourton, Edith, 17.
Strabolgie, Arms of, 43.

David de, 43, 44, bis, 45.

Elizabeth de, 45.

John de, 44.

Philippa de, 45, 46.

Strangman, Arms of, 25.

Edward, 23.

Joan, 23.

Styenfashe, 68.
Surrenden, John de, 60.
Sylegrave, Emma de, 63.

Robert de, 63.

Symons, Arms of, 47.

Ralph, 47.

Thomas, 47.

Symonds, 93.

Mistress, 67, 68.

Ralph, 47.

Tappenden, 123, bis.
Tassell, Robert, 72.
Taylafer, Hanger, 63.
Tayllor, John, 68.
Taylor, 93.
Tenacres, Thomas, 93.

Thomas, 110.

John, 126.

Margaret, 110.

Robert, 86, bis.

Thomas, 67.

William, 110.

Tilden, 93.

Tilmanstone, Roger de, 61.
Tomlinson, Jane, 50.
Tomlyn, John, 92, bis.
Tongate, Adam, 67.
Tucker, Charles, 120.
Tudor, 17.
Tunstall, Edward de, 63.

Osmund de, 63.

Turner, John Bennett, 38.

Mary, 26.

Robert, 26, 84.

Robert Plaxton, 111.

Twisden, Arms of, 50, 51.

Anne, 50.

Elizabeth, 51.

— — Jane, 50.

Lady, 124, bis.

Margaret, 50.

Rebecca, 51, bis.

Roger, 50, bis, 51, bis.

Thomas, 50 bis.

Twysden, William, 50.
Tylden, 69. „

Upton, Nicholas, 65, 67.
Thomas, 89, bis.

Valence, Arms of, 44.

Aymer de, 44.

Yiana, Lucas de, 61.
William de, 60.

Wadeton, John de, 59.
Walker, James, 126.
Ward, Catherine, 108.
Warden, Roger de, 59.

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Wallop, John, 18.
Walsingham, Arms of, 47.

Edmund, 47, bis.

Eleanor, 47, bis.

James, 47.

Thomas, 46, 47, bis.

Ward, Edward, 108, bis.
Warmecoort, Margaret, 122.
Warnecote, Thomas, 68.
Waterman, Amy, 92.

Thomas, 92.

Watton, Durant de, 58.

John de, 58.

Robert de, 58.

Webb, John, 125.
Weldishe, Thomas, 69.
Wentworth, Jane, 20.

Thomas, 20.

Westwoode, Margaret de, 61.
Whadcock, Deyereux, 108.
Whatman, Arthur, 90, bis, 91, qtutter.
Whatton, Arms of, 51.

Edmund, 51.

Elizabeth, 51.

Whelpe, 70.

Richard, 70.

Whitehead, 123.
Wilbye, Joan, 60.

John, 60.

Wildash, Isaac, 121, ter. 124.

Wildash, Mary, 120, 121, 122.

William, 121.

Wilks, Frederick, 125.

James, 120.

William, 119.

William I. King, 5.
Williams, Baron, 24.
Winchelsea, Robert, 59.
Wingham, Emma de, 62.

Henry de, 61.

Walter de, 58.

Willement, Arthur Thomas, 111.

Harriott Jane, 111.

Katharine, 111, 127.

Thomas, 26, 83, 84, 111, 125,

126.
Wodchurche, Simon de, 61.
Wood, James, 89.

Margaret, 25.

Samuel, 25.

Wormesett, Jeremiah, 57.

John, 61.

Worral, Frances, 95.
Wotton, Lord, 104.
Writtle, Eleanor, 47.

Walter, 47.

Wydegate, Ralph de, 63.
Wyse, Thomas, 72.

Young, Thomas, 113.

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ALREADY PUBLISHED.

1821. " Regal Heraldry. The Armorial Insignia of the

Kings and Queens of England, from coeval Authorities." 4to.
London, Rodwell and Martin. Coloured Plates.

1827. " Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral.

With Genealogical and Topographical Notes." 4to. London,
Harding and Lepard. Illustrations.

1829. " Fac-simile of a Contemporary Roll. With the

Names and Arms of the Sovereign and of the Spiritual and Tem-
poral Peers who sat in Parliament 5th Feb. 6th Henry VIII. A. d.
1515." From an Original Roll on Vellum in the possession of the
Author. With an Index and Heraldic Notes. Fifty Copies
printed on royal 4to. One only on atlas 4to. London, William
Pickering. Arms coloured.

1834. " A Roll of Arms of the Reign of King Richard

II. With Preface and Index." 4to. London, William Pickering.
Frontispiece.

1845. " An Account of the Restorations of the Collegiate
Chapel of St. George, Windsor. W ? ith some Particulars of
the Heraldic Ornaments of that Edifice." 4to. London, William
Pickering. With Plates.

Printed for Private Distribution only.

1840. " A Concise Account of the Principal Works in
Stained Glass, that have been executed by Thomas Willement,
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